Religion Kills

I got really angry the other day. Jim and I had walked around the campus putting up signs about the church we are starting, and we put a sticker on the door of discussion. On the top it said "Religion Kills: Jesus is the Savior, Not Christianity." Then underneath that, it gives the differences in definitions for "religion" and "relationship." I thought it was a pretty great sticker.

Apparently, I was wrong.

I walked by the door of discussion the other day, and someone had ripped it off. SOMEONE HAD RIPPED IT OFF.

This is one thing I cannot stand about the Door of Discussion. I read stuff that goes up there all the time that does nothing but rip and tear and cause problems. I read stuff that attacks administrators, students, the newspaper. I read stuff that is not the beginnings of a discussion, but is simply a way of putting an opinion up on a wall to start controversy.

But do I rip those things off? No. Do I go and remove these things that are not helpful at all to our community? No. I leave them up there, because it is not MY place to remove someone else's opinion... someone else's ideas.

Of course, though, my stuff gets ripped down. My sticker... my church's sticker... that focused on emphasizing the LOVE of Christ not the RELIGION of Christ... my sticker that did nothing but point out that religion is not the savior...

I guess the Christians who walk this campus really are just followers of religion. And the idea of that religion being a hindrance is too much to even think about.