Thinking good thoughts...--Day 33

A couple of days ago I read a story primarily about a teacher in a philosophy class trying to prove there is no God. He did well with one student that couldn't stand the barrage of questions, but another was able to defend his faith and God enough to render the teacher speechless. The most interesting thing was that they were Muslims and using Allah instead of God. Almost everything else he said to prove his point could be said of what I thought of as my God.

Now, after watching an episode of 30 days , I have a different view of Muslims and the Islamic faith. I don't think I vilified them as it looks like many Americans on the show did, and I really had no idea what the culture was like. On the show, a Christian man lives with a Muslim family for 30 days and must practice everything about their faith. The women wore the scarves we see many of them wear, but they are simply following a tradition done by many women including Mary, Jesus's mother. Didn't know that. They pray 5 times a day. I didn't know that either. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are actually very similar faiths. There are still obvious differences, including what each believes about Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad, but the love of God is preached by all.

"God cannot die" was one of the only disagreements I heard about Christianity. One of his teachers argue that if God controls everything, but he dies and does not come back for 3 days, then who is controlling everything? That's a very good question for one that does not believe in the Holy Trinity.

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I'm going to pray and sleep on this a bit.

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Good morning.

I think the liberal in me wants to say it's ok for them to pray to Allah because they do seem so strong in their faith. I could be naive too, and although I know they can edit the show to create whatever message they want, I think even less affluent people are much like us Christians. They believe we're all imperfect and will meet God imperfect. I also believe they shouldn't be taking any heat because of their common religion of the 9/11 terrorists and others. They don't believe they shouldn't have to apologize for a sect of their religion unlike what they are taught. I don't believe they should either. That would like all Christians having to apologize for Timothy McVay blowing up the building in Oklahoma.

Unfortunately, I think because they do not believe Jesus died for us all, they are mistaken in their faith, just as they believe we are. I am not here to condemn them, though. I will pray for them.

Now on to other things...

For an impatient person like myself, hitting all the green lights on the way home makes me a happy camper. There are two lights on the way home that are almost always red when I come up to them, but on this day, they were both green. :)

Colton did as well as can be expected in his baseball game again last night. He tagged a kid out at third and a couple of nice hits. One of them though, could not be called a hit since it was caught by one of the two outfielders. I don't think he had hit two balls like that in one game though. We've been working more on his hitting lately, as has his coaches, and it seems to be working.

Gabrielle is leaving the possibility of playing softball open, too. She says she wants to do that or golfing or dance or gymnastics. Hopefully she'll get a chance to try a couple of them soon.