I choose to do my project about religion and worship culture. For me is this is a complete new environment. My mother and father never said a word about religion in any way, neither god or bad. They were married civil and my father left the Swedish church many years ago. My mother haven’t done that because (at least what I think) of that my grandmother sometimes go to the church and have some Christian faith. They don’t verbally offset religion but I have felt some kind of continence of religion on our family my whole growth.
When I was about ~16 and younger I really was anti-religious and didn’t really understand why people were so attracted to religion, I probably should regret some things I said about this subject. I only has/had a total of two, three friends that is Christians and I don’t even know if they regularly go to church on Sundays, but I now they relate to a Christian community. In the town where I grow up the Christian people had their own set. I now one case when a girl went out dancing with her friends at the local nightclub and that place wasn’t really accepted by the community, then the set got malice against here for a while. Things like that made up an awkward picture of the Christian religion. Earlier, people that I have met and said they were religious I put in a certain group of people.
At my three years at the university I have not get in contact with more than, by estimate five people that have a coupling to a Christian community! My home-student-sub-cultures have so small influences by religion so people don’t know that it exists. It never comes up on speak.
When I have been working in Norway for two summers I got more contact with Christians. My boss is Christian and recruited employers from the local Bible Schools. In that way my conservative religious view got a bit smudged by learning to know them.
Today I could say that I have more insight in people’s interest and I have understood that you can’t judge beforehand because of their religion. Or now, at least I try to get rid of my prejudice by get more human understanding in this area.
Here in the US it seems like an enormous percent of the population have a religious beliefs. But no really in the same way as home. Here does even the believing people get really drunk even if God says it’s wrong. I think that is a interesting differentiation.
The last two Sundays I have forced my body to wake up early and go to church. With a reminding dehydration-feeling in my body have I entered two different churches so far, first out was Butte Catholic Community North and yesterday me and my friend went to Church on the Rock after some confusion moments before we realized that the barn looking building was the church.
måndag 27 oktober 2008
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