Just the other day, i was watching American Idol and i tihnk Nadia was singing. She had chosen a sweet song but comments were given that it didn't real suit much for this competition that is all about how you perform and how good your vioce is. In any case, there was a part she had given her reasons for chosing the song which was because it represented part of her and how she wanted people to see her through that song or soemthing like that.
In anycase, because she said that X has made this conclusion as your ideals are never somethign to be expressed out and also they can never work. Here in this sense, Nadia i suppose gave the impression to my parent that she is an idealist and hope people will see it her way. Sadly the argument here is that this does not agree well with X. He believes that people's ideals should never be mixed with the 'real world. In his sense i would assume it to be the world outside home and into working life. Cause he feels that ideals such as Christianity can never work in an environment outside a church. Which i totally disagree with. I personally believe, ideals of a person can still work but they have to be worked according to the situation and to the environment they are in.
Actually, X's view is that he finds anything to do with God over the extreme and can be too gung ho. I don't see anything wrong withh having a passion for something one loves. Even better that the passion is for God. I can actually argue with X saying then him seeing everything with a money business attitude is also considered over the line. Not everything in life has to deal with money, and gaining respect from people. In fact what does it matter at all if you have all that and not be happy and not have a purpose in the end...
Think about it? Can all ideals be thrown out the window in the supposed 'real' world. Or should ideals or can i be more specific Christian ideals still live in our daily lives and not just inside a church or a religious surrounding? The whole point of learning what is in a Bible is to go out and live it. It may very well not be easy, and whoever said life is suppose to be easy. If life is easy and comfortable, one will never learn, one will never be challenged to be spurred with the difficulties in life.
To my Christian friends, let us encourage one another all the more everyday in our walk in not only our lives but also the walk with Jesus. We need it ever so often, when times seem weak and frail. With that i leave for this day's blogging.
Dearest Aronil,
no one can be without a god. Either he acknowledges the one true God (who is the Omnipotent Creator of the Universe), or he'll make himself or some greenback as god (i dunno which is worse). You are right in your judgement about those who are materialistic, that they are also not without their ideals. It's just that, like their gods, which could have been made into toilet paper instead of greenback, their ideals are low and pitiful.
Now for those who say all sorts of nonsense about Christian principles (basically ideals are just these, ideas and principles) cannot be lived out in the "real world", let them go back to their history and social science text books. The framework of the developed world is build from the philosophy and principles of Christianity, whether in arts, business, jurisprudence, politics or science. But of course, there are some whose god is Ignorantia (hehehehe...), so let them be as their god is.
Perhaps it's time that we do not play the one in the Dock and be questioned and examined as if ours is the idea that have gone wrong. Mr. X, please make your way to the Dock NOW.
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