The sun's out and I want to play....

There are times I miss being home for the summer so much that I cant breathe and this lump just forms in my throat with no escape. Maybe its the nostalgia of summer. But it drives me crazy for miliseconds.

politics and religion

The two worst topics to bring up at the dinner table, why? Pride and fear. No one wants to change their opinion, and they should never have to because opinion is all based on perception, how our lives and experiences have molded our  minds, but what about what happens when we make ourselves superior and feel that our opinion is not an opinion, its the answer? 

The odd thing with all this is that politics and religions come as one, should that really be so? Just because I'm a devote Christian doesn't mean I have to have the same political beliefs as another. And yes, I am Christian. I'll tell that to anyone who asks, but to shock those who are rather close minded..guess what, I have my own mind.One of my best friends doesn't believe in God, I have friends who are Jews, I have friends that are extremely right winged military and others who are as communist as Fidel Castro. But they are my friends. Does God look down on me for this? Has he shunned me thinking that birth control is a right as well as being pro-choice? I don't know, have no idea, and NEITHER DO YOU. But what I do know are two simple things that are mentioned nonstop in the bible...1- Unlike other religions, we were given FREE WILL. We have the choice, as humans, to think what we want and react upon it without being judged because only one entity is allowed to do the judging, and as far as I know...you are not God. 2-We are FORGIVEN of our sins when we are finally at the moment of judgement. I'm not saying that I can go about knowingly living a sinful life, but if I live my life according to how I interpret the bible's TEACHINGS ( which is a whole other issue people would LOVE to argue bc many forget that the bible itself, physically, was used as commonly law at its time, therefore the actual teachings are "skewed" and the message is mixed in within the law) I know what I will have in my portfolio to show to God at the end. 

We have no idea what God thinks, we can only live to what we feel he has tried to teach us, and testify/witness.Now. I don't think the definition to testify is..shove what you know down someone's throat until the agree to believe it just to make you happy not God. I'm pretty sure that's more of inhumane torture. I don't know. Just saying. And if God did give us free will, everyone has the right to believe what they want, therefore, how can politics force our Christian values onto someone else. And I use Values rather loosely, since there are various "christian morals" within the political system that really aren't christian but more traditional views. But again, another topic. 

I would love to get a little debate going, or even just an enlightened discussion ( I rather the latter.) Play nice, because no opinion should engulf your soul. No one should get outraged for someone else having a different opinion...we should always see debates as a moment of self discovery. We all have opinions but it isnt until we really start digging to defend that opinion do we realize why we believe so strongly in those bunches of words. 

thats all. It's a holiday here in Chile, so in typical Chilean fashion, nothing is open and I'm stuck in the house.I needed my mind to be productive so I wrote.