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Talk To Me One More Time And I'll Show You Your Savior Before I start on this rant (and it will be a rant) I'd like to tell y'all what occasioned it. I had some time between classes today and I wasn't really in the mood to go home, so I headed out to the cliffs behind Manzy, the little area with the picnic tables right next to DP. I was standing at the fence people watching and taking in the view (a thousand shades of steely gray stretching out forever, broken only by the bobbing heads of surfers, like seals.) A girl with a bike who had been standing around for a while walked up to me and asked if I had five minutes. I thought she wanted me to watch her bike. I asked her what she needed. She said, "I'm in a group on campus and I've been trained to talk to people who look like they have free time about Christ." Uh oh. KKK. I know that I have posted in this blog before about my distaste for the on campus club Campus Crusade for Christ, (Mission: "Our purpose is to spread the word of Jesus Christ on this campus, win hearts over to the kingdom of God, and train them to be disciples who will join in the fulfilling of the Great Commission.") This girl wasn't CCC, but she was from their auxillary group Korean Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC). I'm certainly not anti-organized religion, or even anti-christian. I still go to church when I'm at home and feel like I get something out of it, even if only intellectually, I'm in the Gospel Choir, for pete's sake. But I can't stand some of the things which seem to come along with it. 1) She's trained. Trained for gods sake like a seal, to go up to people and badger them. I mean, this group just tells their members to go up to random individuals and talk at them. It is exactly that completely ineffective technique which makes Mormons and Jehovah's Witness so universally annoying. It's creepy, so much like brainwashing that I really don't see a distinction. They talk about themselves as the "army of Christ" as though it were a good, a glorious thing, when I just see it as regimenting religion. Regulating the heart and soul. Training them. 2) She is interrupting me. "Talk to people who look like they have free time." So I look like I have free time, did it occur to you that I want that free time? That I have spent 99% of my week dealing with school, work, and touring and that I badly need a little time to just think. Did it occur to you that just because you want to talk about "our savior" does not mean that I should be forced to spend the next 15 minutes dodging your incresingly desparate conversation gambits while trying not to be too horribly rude? Did that occur to you? No. Of course it didn't. You have a mission, a calling from God to speak to as many people as possible, to do as much as possible without really thinking about anything. 3) She is essentially ignorant. Now this one, I don't find all the time and is certainly not a common trait in proselytizers, but this girl knew nothing about anything she should have known about. I say that I'm in the Gospel Choir. She asks if that means we sing Gospel music. Yeah, that would be the idea. She asks if Gospel means, "Like about Jesus and stuff." Again, yeah thats the general concept. I mention that we're having a concert on Monday in connection with the Veritas Forum, a Christian organization which sponsers high profile events and speakers. She has never heard of them. By the end of the conversation I am telling her about how to find out info on Veritas, and what they do. Jesus H. Roman. KCCC, if you're going to send minions out into the world to do your bidding, could you make sure that they are versed, at the very least, on the Christian happenings around campus? There is nothing so annoying as having someone who is very ill informed attempt to preach at you. Oy, this is a long one. I really don't mean any offense to Christians in general, this was directed at a specific mindset that some obsessively religious people seem to have. It pisses me off. It inflames me. It annoys me. I tend to shut it out unless it is thrust on me, as it was in this case. She would not let me get away. When I told her I'd heard it before, from friends even, she was shocked that it hadn't worked. She was everything that is misguided and wrong about Christianity and religion in general. And I don't like it. Keep it away from me. 11:07 p.m. April 08, 2004
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