A funny thing happened on the way home today. I stepped onto the bus and entered church. It wasn’t just any old, non-denominational church. It was hard-core “you can’t be alive and not love Jesus” church.
It started before I was picked up at North and Alabama and was in full-swing by 10th and College. There was shouting, name calling, accusations, judgement, belittling, and an occasional “Amen”. It was a religious shout-fest between three completely unrelated individuals, two innocent, one pugnacious.
It was uncomfortable for the two women involved and even more so for the 20 others sequestered by the bus walls. In the few months I have been riding the bus, I have never witnessed such a mass exodus (no pun intended). People requested a stop, sometimes several blocks before their normal locations, and wasted no time pushing through the doors.
I now understand the religious unrest in the Middle East a bit more. Yet the bus argument did not involve multiple religions, just multiple interpretations of the same religion. It was disconcerting and painful.
All I can say is peace be with you.
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