Politics is the next Religion

I will never tell someone to stop believe in his religion. I heart-fully respect someone’s believes.

But there is a point at which I say stop. And Christians are very good at triggering that point.

I once met a very young priest or so (must have been 26) who wandered around the halls of my former campus. He was looking for students he could approach to chat about their view on religion and god. He chose me though I just started to eat my lunch which kind of freaks me out when a warm meal will get cold.

However, I always liked to talk to people who are so into religion. I like to see at which point they try to convert you. Especially Christians are always at the verge of telling you how great Jesus is. Have you ever experienced that with someone who thinks of buddism as his religion? See that’s why it’s so interesting.

So, this young man tries to wrap his head around my point of view which is pretty agnostic and based on physics, things you can prove. We philosophized about the reasons to believe in god and how I could not prove that earth came to existence some 4.6 million years ago instead of 2000. How I right now could not prove to him that dinosaurs are thousand of years old, because how can I even prove we talk to each other now?
How there would be no fundamental moral if there wouldn’t be god as the ultimate and last instance. How other religions are nice but ultimately not right.

I knew where this would lead to so I asked him right away about my impression that every Christian I’ve talked to thinks he has the right to claim a message. Every time they think to be an ambassador of something I wouldn’t understand until I come over and join their little meeting every thursday down the hall.

And guess what. He agreed.