Sunday, January 17, 2010

"I m a christian, I don't lie"

Today i had a soccer game and what one of my buddy said greatly affected me.
"I am a Christian, I don't lie." Rather simple yet powerful words spinning along many implications and many meanings behind it.
I was rather angry at what he said over a seeming trivial matter like whether the ball hit the crossbar or the other metals parts of the goal post that would have rendered the ball to be out of bounds. So i said in a jest, "Nope, it's the crossbar." He insisted that the ball was out of bounds, of which i denied again. Then out came the famous words. "I am a Christian, I don't lie."
By saying that, do u mean that i lied, for the sake of a simple leisurely Sunday game of soccer?
I have got nothing against him or his faith but i felt that by saying what he did he has put me in a lower pedestal of moral values. That i lied so that i can have a simple ball thrown in from the corner of the court. I felt that he has put me down and insulted me and he has because of this incident a high moral authority over me because "I am a Christian, I dun lie!". That because i am not one, i would not be fit to be view in the same manner and be judged by others in the same fashion as he would have to be because he is always up there, regardless; he is a christian, he does not lie.
We all do have prejudices against people. Whether it is in the form of religion, colour of the skin, foreign talents but we have to be a little more aware that anything that makes you feel that you are up there higher in the moral values and standing than other people makes you carry a very heavy burden. A burden so big that it is so hard to "I dun lie!" at all. You dun lie? At all?
That is a very heavy burden to undertake and if that is your wish i fully respect that but i hope you would see things in a lighter light and do lie once in a while, maybe to get you out of trouble and get you the extra day off you need by going to see the doctor.
This incident affected me quite a little that i had to log it down in my almost untouched blog for me to keep a account and as a guidance to myself that, "I am not a Christian, i did not lie in that instance too." You and me both know no answers but judging by the reactions of the people around the ball, no one remarked that it hit other metals poles. I may have lied many instances in my life to get MCs for the extra day off, to tell people they are not fat, their house in really very nice, the bride is very beautiful, many many others more. I am a liar BUT i dun think you are in any way a much better person or worse person than me in anyway. I thought we were always equal till i heard, "I am a Christian, I don't lie"