So there's drama goin' down at CCU right now. Long story short, in Chapel they had a speaker talk about abortion, and I guess there were some people in the crowd who would cheer whenever a pro-choice comment would be made, and the others would cheer whenever a pro-life comment was made. Obviously, I wasn't there. I've heard both sides of the story, and honestly I'm not really happy with either side. It sounds like everyone was pretty unloving and stubborn and yeah. Whenever people make a decision on something controversial, most of the time they make this decision in their minds, like "I don't care what point is made, I'm (insert drama) and everyone else is wrong, damn it!
I'm reading Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis. It's amazing. Even the prologue is amazing. I guess when he first made these points, he made them on the radio. The he compiled all of the points into a book, and the Prologue is basically just saying "I'm not trying to convert anyone to my way of thinking." And just goes off on this explanation of all the problems with Christians and their differences. He makes two amazing points, that I want to point out:
"(in reference to stating that the only thing he's decided to tell non-believers about in regards to his faith is about Jesus)... the questions which divide Christians from one to another often involve points of high Theology or even ecclesiastical (church) history, which ought never to be treated except by real experts." This one first: Arynn and I were talking last night about how so many people base their political choices on two things: abortion and gay marriage. No wonder our country is so corrupt sometimes! People don't give a damn about what's best for the country, only about their own petty beliefs. How selfish and ignorant is that?! I understand it's good to make a decision, and I'm not knocking those people for having beliefs, but there is a hell of a lot more to our country's issues than gay marriage and abortion. People care about this stuff because it's easy to comprehend, and it basically hinges on whether you believe in Jesus or not (anyone who says this country isn't a Christian nation (do not mistake that I'm saying it was FOUNDED as a Christian nation, because I don't think it was) is an idiot. Even non-Christians base their opinions and actions against Christians. We have Christian national holidays, pretty much every political issue comes down to Christianity in some way, and over half the population consider themselves Christians). ANYWAY, Lewis' point here is most people learn super basics about a subject, and then argue it to death based on that loose understanding of it. Most people have no idea of the ramifications for making gay marriage legal (not saying I'm for or against it, just saying it'd be hard). I don't even know. A friend explained it to me, and basically said that to make it legal, all people licensed to marry in the US (Christian nation, anyone?) would have to accept it, and there's no way the majority of Christians are going to accept it any time soon. So yeah, I guess I'm just saying the people who cheered for abortion on Tuesday (and against it) were basing their opinion on loose moral judgments that have to deal with everyone not being offended. As for the lifers, I don't know if I'm okay with anyone who is strongly against abortion who has no clue what it's like to make that decision. Most judgmental Christians outsiders perspective.
The other point Lewis had I just made. He was talking about birth control and how, because he wasn't a woman, he didn't have the perspective to make opinions about this controversy.
So yeah, I basically just ranted, but this book is amazing, and drama cannot go un-noted. :-)
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