Faith | Fé

When I see someone say “That’s why I don’t believe in God,” or “And people ask me why I don’t believe in God anymore”… I just shake my head and feel pity for that soul.

                                   

People think that God is there to fulfill their childish wishes, and they don’t understand that God is not their ‘Fairy Godmother’ so they can ask whatever they want.

Yes, there are awful things in the world, but that’s NOT God’s making, that’s MAN making. Someone once told me “I know you’re very religious but since my (family member) died, I’m mad at God”.

I can understand why people get upset when someone dies, and even though you don’t understand that’s God’s will… that’s exactly what helps us move on from grieving: understanding that that’s God’s will. I know it’s hard to understand and to wrap your mind around it, but it’s true.

The ex-president of Uruguay, José Mujica, an open atheist; once said that even though he doesn’t believe in God, he learned during war to respect other people beliefs. He saw that believers and people with faith, affronted their death more peaceful than those who were faithless … because they believed in something that brought them peace, and they were at peace with themselves and with God, believing there’s life after death.

It makes me sad when I see someone that doesn’t believe in God, or that they’re “mad at God”. Something that we, religious people, understand from the very beginning is: GOD'S WILL… not yours.

I naively thought that everyone believed in God, maybe because I’ve never encounter anyone who didn’t… or maybe who didn’t “openly”. I was shocked, to be honest…

Funnily enough religious people are more open, and more accepting of things than atheists. Atheist, I believe, think they have a personal quest to “open our eyes” and stop believing in “fairy tales”.

Why?

I'll ask this, the same way I asked a friend why she was so upset of our classmate being gay: “How that affects YOU personally?”… How MY FAITH damages YOUR lack of it?

Yes, I am very religious; been my entire life. But I also have gay friends, I even have family members that are gay… I have gay friends who believe in God, too.

Not every religious person rejects gay people, not every religious person is going to FORCE you to believe in God. Actually, you should be thankful for US because we'll be praying for you and your soul.

It makes you upset that I believe in God? It makes me sad that you don’t.

But don’t worry, I'll be praying for you… and I’m one of God closest friends, so hopefully I can give him a few good words for you… ;o)

Cuando veo que alguien dice “Por eso es que no creo en Dios”, o “Y la gente me pregunta por qué ya no creo en Dios”… simplemente sacudo la cabeza y me siento mal por esa alma.

La gente cree que Dios está ahí para cumplirles sus deseos infantiles, y no entienden que Dios no es un “ada madrina” a quien le puedan pedir lo que sea que quieran.

Sí, hay cosas feas que pasan en el mundo, pero eso NO es culpa de Dios; eso es culpa del HOMBRE. Alguien una vez me dijo “Sé que eres muy religiosa pero desde que (miembro de familia) murió, estoy molesta con Dios”.

Puedo entender por qué la gente se molesta cuando alguien muere, y aunque no entiendas que es la voluntad de Dios… eso es exactamente lo que nos ayuda a superar el dolor: entender que es la voluntad de Dios. Sé que es difícil de entender y de procesarlo, pero es verdad.

El expresidente de Uruguay, José Mujica, un abierto ateo; una vez dijo que aunque el no cree en Dios, aprendió durante la guerra a respetar las creencias de las personas. El vio a creyentes y personas de fe, enfrentar su muerte más tranquilamente que aquellos que no tenían fé… porque creían en algo que les daba paz, y estaban en paz consigo mismos y con Dios, creyendo que hay vida después de la muerte.

Me entristece cuando veo a alguien que no cree en Dios, o que están “molestos con Dios”. Algo que nosotros, los religiosos, entendemos desde el principio es que: es la voluntad de Dios… no la tuya.

Inocentemente pensaba que todos creían en Dios, quizás porque jamás me habían conseguido a alguien que no lo fuese… o que no lo fuese “abiertamente”. Me sorprendió, para serles franca…

Curiosamente las personas religiosas, o los creyentes, son más abiertos, y tenemos más aceptación de las cosas que los ateos. Los Ateos, creo yo, piensan que tienen una lucha personal de “abrirnos los ojos” y que dejemos de creer en “cuentos de adas”.

¿Por qué?

Preguntaré esto, de la misma forma en que le pregunté a una amiga porqué le afectaba tanto que un compañero de clases era gay: “¿En qué te afecta a TI personalmente?” … ¿Cómo MI FE afecta tu FALTA de fe…?

Sí, soy muy religiosa; lo he sido toda mi vida. Pero también tengo amigos gay, incluso tengo miembros de mi familia que son gay… Tengo amigos gay que creen en Dios, también.

No todas las personas religiosas rechazan a los gay, no todas las personas religiosas te van a FORZAR a creer en Dios. De hecho, deberías agradecernos a NOSOTROS porque estaremos orando por ti y por tu alma.

¿Te molesta que yo crea en Dios? Me entristece que tu no.

Pero no te preocupes, estaré orando por ti… y soy una de las amigas más cercanas a Dios, así que espero poderle hablar bien de ti… ;o)

Body Language

…and why I hate Beyoncé.

70% of the things we say, we say it with our body… and it is something that I know my way around, and quite well; thanks to the best teacher I had for that: Mum.

Though I don’t think it has anything to do with just reading a book or knowing the universal signs; like crossing your arms protecting yourself in a conversation… I think it has also a lot to do with instinct.

I’m going to tell you what happened to me, which made me confirmed that people miss a lot of things because they don’t know how to read someone else’s body.

A while ago, we were at the office watching the Super Bowl 2016 performance on YouTube. A coworker was talking about how beautiful, gorgeous and “amazing” Beyoncé was… and I told her that Beyoncé is one of the artists that I hate the most in all history. She defended her, mentioning her struggle and her complicated past with her father, and such.

I told her “I can’t stand her as person.” to what all my coworkers jokingly responded that they haven’t got the “chance to meet her in person, to know”… but is not necessary to meet someone face to face to know if that person is a good human being or not. You can see that in the way they treat their subordinates, their family, how they handle journalists (in the case of artists) and especially how they treat their fans.

And that’s something Beyoncé fails enormously, in each and every one of the previous statements.

Yes, maybe she struggled from the bottom to overcome herself, and she’d been working her entirely life, since she was a child. I am not denying that, nor am I taking her achievements away. But, to me, she stills is a prepotent person, that doesn’t know the concept of humility (especially for someone that came from the bottom), and the way she believes herself, literally, to be the “Goddess of the Music World”; simply for me makes her less and less of a pleasant person.

The first time that I realized this was in an E! (entertainment channel) special where they aired an interview after yet another Destiny Childs’ member dropped out of the group (back in the 90’s). Her expression of disdain and contempt when she said “All the bad apples are out”, marked the moment when I saw how arrogant she was. Especially because in that same program they interviewed one of the former members, and she said that she was giving everything to the group, and yet her mum didn’t have enough money to buy food… while Beyoncé and her father drove around LA in Ferraris.

Second point: family. It turned out that Beyoncé has a half-brother, I can’t quite remember where or how he came in the picture; but the thing is that she had a brother living in the streets (if I can recall properly) and he was in serious financial problems. I’m the kind of person that believes children shouldn’t pay for their parents’ mistakes; and she, whether had or hadn’t had problems with her dad, was the right one to help her brother. Apart from the fact that she has the meanings (I mean, money in industrial quantities) to be able to help him without costing her nothing. Did she do it? No. she turned her back to him.

There’s your queen.

Point three: fans. I confirmed, once again, the cloud of……….arrogance and of “look but do not touch me” in where “Queen” Beyoncé walks around (I mean, not even the Queen of England); when I saw a video (on Snapchat) where some fans were at some red carpet event, and a girl shouted to Beyoncé “You’re looking beautiful!!” or something like that, to what your highness gave a sided, annoyed, with all her disdain written all over her face (how dare she speaks to me!) look, and with an annoying tone answered “Thanks.”

Not even a little smile, not a wink, not even to turn around to see the girl properly. No. Nothing. Just disdain, contempt, arrogance… That’s the queen everybody defends.

And that’s the Beyoncé I hate.

I know it’s hard to believe that one can know artists (no matter how “famous” they are) just by looking at them, but it is possible. Thanks to Body Language, it is easy to see how humble or proud, how simple or arrogant, how natural or fake they can be.

And she can have all the money in the world, and all the awards in all the categories. But a person that doesn’t want to help her half-brother and leave him on the streets, having the meanings to do it (and plenty of money) for me is just a despicable human being.

PS: English is not my first language, if you see gramma mistakes, you're welcome to point them out so I can fix and learn... Thanks!