"Your God Is A Stupid God"
Submitted by freefortermpapers on 06/24/2008 03:00 PM
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"Your God Is A Stupid God"
A few years ago, I decided to spend some time in London in order to improve my English. I was going to stay with an ultra-orthodox Jewish family as a nanny. I understood that some of their traditions were quite different from what I was used to and that was alright with me. I did not know anything about the Jewish faith; actually I had never seen a Jewish person before so I was looking forward to learning about their culture. A few days after my arrival, I was babysitting their four-year-old boy, Joshua. We were playing games and suddenly he said: "Your God is a stupid God!" Wow! What can you say to that? I just told him it was not nice to talk like that and that as far as I knew there was only one God for everyone. I would have probably forgotten the whole conversation, but that night the boy's mother sent him to apologize to me and punished him for what he had said.
Because of this incident, I started thinking more about the role religion plays in our lives. I did not feel offended by Joshua's remark at all but maybe I should have. Where did the child get the idea? Did he hear it from someone and if so why would anyone think this way at the end of the 20th century? My naive world where all people were equal, and liked and respected each other was slowly falling apart. I do not know what I was thinking considering that the war in Bosnia was still going on and the situation in Northern Ireland was far from being peaceful. As so many people in Europe, I was subconsciously rejecting the fact that people were being killed because they belong to a different religion or different nation and all that was happening right here in Europe, where everything is so close. Perhaps the way I was brought up had something to do with the way I looked at the world. Religion was not an important issue for me, so I was not aware that it was crucial to others.
I grew up in Czechoslovakia during the communist era. Religion was never a big part of my life,...
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