Friday, February 29, 2008

I'd eat clouds if they were on my plate.


I wore shorts yesterday.

Wednesday was the day my stereotypical view of San Diego came true. It was blistering hot. I couldn't help but feel like a rustler making his way through the desert trying to get to a town as I made my way to my car in the parking lot. I wore jeans that day and I could feel little pricks of heat in my legs. It was miserable. So to combat the heat I woke up and threw on shorts for Thursday. It turned out a bad choice. San Diego decided to trick me and bring back the cold windy clouds. I was happy to be in shorts so it though so it didn't faze me too much. So I'm gobbling down on some banana bread heading in the direction of my next class when I saw a good size group of people standing around these big posters.

I walked over to check it out. Some organization had made around 7 of these posters. On one of side of the poster there would be the word "Love" and the other side would have the word "Hate." Smack dab on top would be one word. There were markers at hand so you could write on the great wall of papers. As I made my way to where the large group was I saw posters labeled as Dating, Men, Goverment, and America. The crowd was around the poster with Christianity up on top. Both sides had tons of writing. I stood in front of it for about 15 minutes and watched it. People would come up every now and then and mark each side. As I watched people mark up the hate side I think I died a little in the inside. People hated how Christians are hypocrites, they hate the fundamentals who won't stand for evolution, they hate how people have killed in the name of Christ, they hate how preachers jump around the bible taking it totally out of context to prove a point. They say that Christianity is bullshit, that we are brainwashed idiots, that the answer to life is found in ourselves.

All around me people were talking. A group of students behind me were discussing their opinions on why Christianity had spread so much around the world and continued to grow. The girl next to me pointed out and told me that dinosaur bones always made her question the faith. Some guys besides me were talking about how Christians believed in ridiculous fairy tales.

Hearing all this talk made me wish people would be able to see God easier. I really like clouds. When the sun hits the clouds just right to give them that yellow glow I can't help but think of God. I see those puffy shapes in the sky and know that there is a God out there who made those. It's too bad I can't just point at the sky to make people realize God's existence.