God 1, Nietszche 0

Tonight I went to Joshin with Monjun to buy some blank media. On the rainy way back we stopped at Mos Burger (a Japanese Burger joint) for dinner. I have discovered that MOS stands for Mountain, Ocean, Sky, which are the wide regions of this burger chain's love and benevolence. In the blessed seats of Mos Burger, what began as a casual mention that my girlfriend is Catholic turned into a discussion of religion. I actually enjoyed it, which is rare.

(flash forward to October 9th)
Inspired by this conversation with Monjun, I decided to finally bring up the subject with Veronica. Religion. I like Veronica's take on Catholicism, because she rejects so many aspects of it that I also disagree with, such as the control over sex, the condemnation of gays, and the sexism that doesn't allow women to take the same role as men in the church (clergy). It was interesting to talk about transubstantiation with her, in part because she sees it as dubious. I never knew that Catholics were the interpretive Christians. That's the best way to read the bible, unless you want to live in the 4th century B.C.

In the end I think we're similar in our general idea of "god", or the space-time-continuum, or krishna, whatever you would like to call it. The thing is, people believe things fundamentally according to the way they were raised (unless they change!). In a scientific-skeptical household like mine my sisters and I were taught to try to understand things rather than to blindly believe them. (This proved to be a problem for our early political indoctrination, but my parents have mellowed, so I really shouldn't bring that up, except who reads this anyway? Hi Cris!). Thus, I like to think of myself as rational, skeptical and scientific, even if I'm usually not all those things. Usually I'm experiential, impressionable and scientific, which is not such a bad combination. Even given Veronica's re-evaluation of her religion and her compromises she is a religious person. Instead of thinking of this as a problem, I like to see this as another interesting aspect of her. Her difference helps make her the person I'm so attracted to. May it remain as a seed of interest rather than become a kernel of discord.