I... I'm underqualified to talk about this. ( She speaks very slowly, cautiously, trying to muddle this out as she speaks. )
I think most people are, but they don't always want to admit it. My yiayia and baba, they grew up in different faiths that as... that as far as I've always understood it worshipped the same god, but looked at that god in different ways, and saw the role of different figures within that faith in different ways, too. There's a man who is debated as being the son of God or a prophet, and I've always struggled trying to work out which way was right. I thought it was... I mean, I thought it was kind of beautiful, actually, that they had what could have been a huge barrier between them, because of how important their faith was to both of them, but they loved each other so much anyway. I thinkβ for me, anywayβ I think the god that they and me worship matters because of love. And I can't talk for the gods here, but for me, the gods that matter, and my God, they can't matter without love. There's a whole lot of other things, but love, that's above all else.
Religion is complicated. Faith is complicated. I'mβ we're all just trying to figure it out. I think people can seem godlike, and they can be tied in with gods, but I don't know that I could call them a god. That's a lot. But maybe that's where some of the debate in my world comes from, too, and that guy a lot of people think is a prophet, I do think of as the son of God. So, I mean... what do I know, yeah?
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I think most people are, but they don't always want to admit it. My yiayia and baba, they grew up in different faiths that as... that as far as I've always understood it worshipped the same god, but looked at that god in different ways, and saw the role of different figures within that faith in different ways, too. There's a man who is debated as being the son of God or a prophet, and I've always struggled trying to work out which way was right. I thought it was... I mean, I thought it was kind of beautiful, actually, that they had what could have been a huge barrier between them, because of how important their faith was to both of them, but they loved each other so much anyway. I thinkβ for me, anywayβ I think the god that they and me worship matters because of love. And I can't talk for the gods here, but for me, the gods that matter, and my God, they can't matter without love. There's a whole lot of other things, but love, that's above all else.
Religion is complicated. Faith is complicated. I'mβ we're all just trying to figure it out. I think people can seem godlike, and they can be tied in with gods, but I don't know that I could call them a god. That's a lot. But maybe that's where some of the debate in my world comes from, too, and that guy a lot of people think is a prophet, I do think of as the son of God. So, I mean... what do I know, yeah?