Religious people love to argue.
Each one is convinced that he or she is right and everyone else is wrong.
Between religious groups there is mistrust, even hatred. Just a few days ago a bus was attacked in Kenya, and all the occupants of the bus that did not belong to a certain religious group were killed. Your religion would not do that, you say. Not true. It may be that in your religion’s past similar atrocities took place.
It always surprises me how followers of one religion will go to great lengths to convert people from another religion while their own children don’t believe in God. Surely we should convert our own families first. So many of us love to argue religion.
If you win the argument, you get a convert. But that convert is only a convert until he meets someone with a better argument. Just last Sunday morning a beautiful little girl of about seven years old asked me how she must share her beliefs with a boy at her school who comes from a home where another religion is practiced.
Looking into her eyes I realised that she sincerely wants to share her faith. I could arm her with good arguments based on the strengths of her religion and expose the weaknesses of the little boy’s religion. But arguments don’t prove anything. I gave her the following simple advice.
Love the little boy and don’t judge him. Look at Jesus, not at Christians and live like he lived.
I truly believe that more people would be Christians if Christians were more like Jesus.
PS: Don’t try to convert people from another religions while your own house is not in order.
“For God so loved the world …” That includes everybody. Amen
