Religion Talks

I was suppose to go for a buka puasa function today (atleast i tot i was)

But instead i had a long conversation with my dutch friend about religion :)

He is a proud Christian

But of coz growing up in Holland does not much help him to 'embrace' the religion as much as he is now...

He get himself back into the 'light' some many years ago when he came back to Malaysia sometime in 1994... the irony of embracing Christianity in Malaysia to compare in any country huh...(just a figure of speech ya :))

Like most of the time when we meet...it will start with business meeting and then family and always end up with our famous 'religion talks' as i think he is trying to 'convert' me into Chritianity :)

Of coz i cant express my full tots in this blog as a friend of mine dah kena 'marked' for doing so so i will be as details asi could...

Like any other Religion talks....either @ starbucks, kopitiam or even at a religious debate talk shows/rally(ie. Ahmad Deedat's famous talks) the discussion would never end with both party have their own sellfish satisfaction on the subject matter!

Why is this?

One of the reason is because we are used to think like how we have been brought up!

Its a simple mindset ...

We would ONLY agree on facts that we are used to known in our life and will only acknowledged the facts that we believe on ... tougue twister eh :)

But that is just being a typical judgemental human beings

Humans like to judge and as much as they try not too they will judge more ...

and i am not just talking bout him and myself...humans generally...

But ofcoz to have a 'healthy' conversation on religion one must be extremely open on one's thought of the subject matter...

Back to me and the dutch guy religion talks:
:)

we suppose to have a quick one hour chat on biz etc and end up with the longest religion talks that we ever had...from a non drink conversation to having a coffee at starbucks to ending up with dinner and both of us were late to go back to our family to have dinner ith them!

Our wives keep on calling us 'waiting' and mine reminded me to pick up my son from his god family house.

i think this was the deepest conversation we ever had and definitely the longest!

but as i said earlier... religion talks never ends with satisfaction but we always feel good talking bout it coz we were both are very open on the topic... but i did leave him with a very deep thoughts on one of the posibilities on the origin and the reason of a religion and the effect on humans and what have happen in this world... that thought i cant share in here :)

at the end of the day...why bother what religion u are in.... stop pondering if u are and just start do something in this world that will benefit others and the people that need yr help either money or time or effort and careness.

start to care...why not.... search for the answer ... what's the purpose of life?