“Masturbation is a sin and I am sure you do it everyday”, prompted someone from behind. My friend got a shock of his life. Not because the person from the back guessed it right, but because he was talking about sex wearing a rosary around the neck and holding a bible in his hands. He was a protestant evangelist just preaching what he thought was right – Jesus the ‘only’ way, as if all the other enlightened souls who lived on the planet were mere fools.
It was during my hostel days, and my poor friend had gone to a medical store to fetch some pain killer to get rid of his severe headache. He was unfortunately got caught by this person, and for 1 hour he was bombarded about the achievement of Jesus Christ, and how bible can show him the right way. And moreover he didn’t even ask him whether he was interested in hearing about Christianity.
My friend looked all the more tired after coming back to the hostel, and was kind of refusing to see my face. They all knew that half my blood was from a Christian family hence though he wanted to blast Jesus Christ outright he kept mum for a while. He could not resist himself for long and opened up, “why these M*****r F*****g Christians want to convert others?” “Why can’t they just keep their mouth shut, and pray for their daily breads?” He made immense sense to me.
Why should any one market a particular religion, when it is an altogether personal search. And why should Jesus be the only savior? Why can’t Prophet Mohammed be one, and why can’t lord Shiva be one? Confirming availability by constructing churches, mosques or temples are perfect. One who wants to seek will reach. But why is there a need to preach - that too outside your den.
Recently another friend of mine, who is perfectly happy with Goddess Lakshmi as his personal deity happened to converse with a Christian office mate. He honestly agrees that the only reason he started the conversation with her was to try luck his in laying her at the earliest. But unfortunately all his hidden desires were blown to smithereens when she started talking about Jesus Christ, and how he should start reading the bible, and how Jesus will show him the right way. Getting totally pissed off with her, the first thing he did was – dialed my number! And he used words so foul that if his office mate had listened to it – she would have hanged herself.
So what should you do the next time you meet anyone who says Jesus Never Fails, just say probably Jesus never tried his luck writing CA exams!
PS – The scribe believes in Christ but not in Christianity!