He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
Today I was in Times Square [ew, I know, but I had to catch a train], and a woman almost walked into me [a tourist]. She was wearing this shirt that said "It's all okay...Jesus loves you." Now, I have absolutely nothing againt people who love Jesus. It's all good, I mean, everyone needs someone to love, right? But I just felt, I don't know, like she was kind of encroaching on my religious beliefs...it's one thing to wear a cross but I feel like it's another to tell me that the god of your religion loves me. I don't want to be loved by Jesus. I felt like she had inadvertantly entered my personal space, my religious personal space, and we all know how much New Yorkers crave personal space, in a city with over a million people. I have no idea why it affected me like this, it's probably just that I'm very emotional right now, but that's just what I have to say, take it for what it's worth, and if I've just offended anyone, well, mea culpa.
posted by blueyes @ 12:20 PM
4 Comments:
1. She didn't say she loved Jesus, she said Jesus loves YOU! Aren't you lucky?
2. I say Hashem loves you. Is that enroaching on your/other people's religious beliefs(this is a real question, not a snarky one)?
3. I wanna make a t-shirt that says Hashem is my Homeboy
4. I didn't tell you the long but true story about how I was on the E train and I saw this lady walking through handing out these little pamphlets. And all I could think was "Oh no, it's one of these deaf ladies that give you a photocopied peice of paper with the sign language alphabet, and guilt you into paying $5.00 for it." Then I decided that I would just not make eye contact and hopefully she wouldn't bother me. And of course, being the nice person that I am, my conscience got the best of me and I was forced to decide that I would treat her nicely, and when she came to me with her pamphlet I would smile and take it. So first she got to the gay man across the aisle from me, and I was trying not stare, but I noticed that she kept trying to hand him the pamphlet and he ignored her, so she tried again, and he stared at her with laser eyes and shook his head no. Now, this was after the whole car on the train had taken the pamphlet from the poor little deaf lady, and all I could think was "Man, am I ready for some football?" No, actually, all I could think was "why is this gay man shooting down this poor little deaf lady?" So then she turns to me with her deaf people pamphlet, and after seeing what the gay guy did to her, I readily accepted, with a big smile on my face for the nice little deaf lady and made sure to even say thank you(even though she couldn't hear me of course...) And I took one look at the pamphlet and it said something along the lines of "Getting into Heaven with Jesus" I was ready to go up to the poor little deaf lady and tell her that I was already saved last week by a man named Jesus(pronounced Spanishly Hey-Zoues). I was drowning, and Jesus, being a lifeguard that can walk on water, rescued me! So I didn't need her pamphlet, I'd already been saved." Too bad I chickened out, so all I did was crumple the pamphlet up and shared a nice laugh with the gay man across the aisle from me.
We need to come up with a fun fake name for you darling...I had no idea you were "saved" by your lifeguard Jesus, that's incredible, remind me to thank him the next time I see him for not letting one of my funniest friends drown. I know the woman didn't say she loved Jesus, but I'm assuming that she does if she's wearing a "Jesus loves you" shirt. And saying something and walking around with a shirt declaring that thing are two totally different, um , things [very frequent use of the word "thing," sorry about that], i think we can at least agree on that point. But that story was really something, thatnks for giving me something to laugh at!
haha i dont know about you guys... but i would really like to get a shirt that says I bleed if you shoot me in the chest... bc atleast thats true (and i know its true... unlike jesus loving me. i mean how does anyone know that? Does that lady talk to Jesus on a daily basis to find out? And shooting me in the chest would actually make me bleed. Unlike those people that feel the need to wear Superman tshirts. They're not really superman are they, like if you shot them in the chest they would bleed, making the superman statement completely invalid... ok sorry for going off into that tangent.... maybe i've been listening to dane cook too much.
Haha you raise a valid point...how does that woman know that Jesus loves me? Does she talk to Jesus on a daily basis? And then, does Jesus talk back to her? If Jesus is talking to her, maybe she should go see someone...the Pope at least, I think the Pope should know the direct words of Jesus to this woman. She could be like a new prophet if, in fact, Jesus is actually speaking to her. Just an idea, you know.
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