March 9, 2003
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…on My Religious Views
So far in this blog I have carefully avoided touching on religious issues and such. I believe it should be blatantly apparent to a regular reader that I am a Christian, if only through my poetry and the song lyrics which I post. I am a Protestant Christian. I am not ashamed of this, and my belief is strong. The reason why I avoid religious issues is because I don’t know how to approach them, and I decided that until I know how to approach them, I will not discuss them. My problem is that I don’t want this blog to become preachy. I don’t want to impose my beliefs on others. As a Christian, though, I do believe that my views are correct and therefore feel that I should convince others. I also don’t want to ever sound like I’m insulting others and their beliefs, and I know that this could easily happen in written form because of many reasons, not least of which is my inexperience with writing.
I hope that by this declaration, you, my readers, will understand better where I and my views are coming from. It is my sincerest wish that if you liked this blog before this declaration, even if you think my beliefs are wrong, that it will not change your opinion. On top of that, I hope that by posting this I can gain your respect for standing firm in my beliefs. As for further posts on religious topics: they are possible because much of my life is devoted to them, but they will most likely continue to be as implicit as they currently are.
(And yes, i’m aware of my overuse of the word ‘religion’ and it’s different forms. I’m just too tired to bother to think of different words to use, or even to use a thesaurus.)
Comments (11)
Everyone is entitled to their beliefs… so I don’t find think religion could actually be a base for conflict… unfortunately religion is corrupted to cause war and what not…
Anyways, hope your weekend went well… take care
You have faith in Love , Shy . This is the message of the Evangile . Christ is our light and our hope . I share your belief in another confession but for me who am oecumenist it the same creed .
Love Michel
ps : I am not sure all the words above are english !!
Oi!
Não me importo…….
jaime
(((hugs)))
I loved your blog before and I will continue to love it.
I think Michel said it very well
You post what you what when the words come to you, but it shows in your beautiful poetry already 
#1 – I love Robert Frost.
#2 – Each person is entitled to their personal belief. It’s nice to know where you stand. It doesn’t change my feelings for you. I still love you, Paulista que sabe sambar.
Which gets me back to my question of whether God really exists if all of us believe in him/her/it.
Believe in just one way. Without religion, without anything to color God.
Maybe *I need to read some more Frost…
Cheers
it is my belief that one should never judge someone else because of a differing religious belief, i believe that god comes in many forms and in many names to different people…how else could he reach such a vast difference in people?! so there is no judgement here!
oi oi.
well it seems we all have our views.
‘though if one espouts his views as being the highest or best, than one never gets beyond disputes.’
- ven. nyantiloka