Y Friday, April 20, 2007
11:43 pm
What's the last place on earth you guys would expect me to end up at? (Willingly)That's right! A church!
Fine fine. It wasn't for a service or anything. Rachel (Ex-school mate.) was performing a play and invited us to come. So yeap.. might as well take a look. I've never been into the inside of a church anyway. So we cabbed there and the first thing that greeted me was this bunch of chinese people dressed in indian traditional clothing, fooling no one with their phony accent. Weird.
Then we met Mrs Kee, our primary school music teacher. Small world.
Inside the hall, there was enough noise to make your head burst, enough people to make claustrophobic people break down and cry on the spot. Well, the hall wasn't that big (Chester pointed out it's not nearly as spacious as other churches) but at least the atmosphere (of a cheap Bollywood movie) was there. You get to exchange 50c for one token which you can use to purchase food, fruits and drinks. Well, we already ate and the food didn't seem too appetizing. (The teh-tarik is pretty good though. Free =D)
And soon the concert started. The props were GREAT! It was easy to tell lots of effort was put into making the set seem authentically indian. The announcer with the phony indian voice was annoying, but hey, gotta give him credit for trying.
So anyway, it's about this Esther girl that's so beautiful that the king gets smitten with her. She becomes empress, but is a jew!(gasp!)
Then the evil prime minister decides to exterminate all jews because one jew didn't bow to him. Okay, Esther's in a dilemma. She can remain silent and doom her people or try something. So she did something. How? By inviting the PM and king to a banquet, then giving them an invitation to a banquet during the banquet.
Esther believes in her god and the king soon has a dream that it was a jew who saved his life. That jew is rewarded, his and Esther's people safe. We have a happy ending, which proves that god is always watching over us. Yay.
Of course, it's a church, naturally the friendly christians there would approach you for a chat. So there was this middle-aged woman who came up to me during the interval and said..
"Hello. Jesus loves you."
"Oh yeah, I've heard. I'm an atheist."
*STUNNED LOOK ON FACE*
"Oh an ath-eist. But you know, Jesus died for you on the cross. It was so.. cruel and painful. He died for you."
"Ahh. Yes I know. But I didn't ask him to die for me. And theoretically, if god doesn't exist, Jesus's death doesn't really make sense. And being atheist.. yeah. As far as I'm concerned, they don't exist."
"How did you think that watch you're wearing came about..?"
She's trying that intelligent design crap on me. Come off it.. that's not the way to go about convincing an atheist. Atheists HATE the Intelligent Design/Creationism bullcrap.
"Well.. eh, it's not really going to work. I'm not going to convert.."
"Oh no! I'm not trying to convert you. God gives everyone free will to choose." (Darren did point out; free will and ordination cannot co-exist. Bible is true because god wrote it. God exists because bible is true.)
"That's why Adam and Eve ate the apple, right?" (Darren pointed this out too. What a christian.)
We both laughed at this point, so the conversation was quite amiable. I ended off saying I'll convert if one day God "touches" me. Until that day comes... we'll talk about it when it comes.
Crazy Chester wanted to go to sim pang or whatever weird, far away place that is. Darren and I concluded he was crazy and went home.
They all misunderstand.