Day Two: The Talking Continues

Today we got the other group's cup and it was pretty random. Their cup had The Way I See It #299 (I think it was that one, I forgot to write down the number.) It was about the difference between a promise and a mission, but how when the two combine that is when the magic happens. The stuff written on the cup was kind of like stream of consciousness and it was hard to decipher how they went from that statement to Espanol, to GIRLS, to Mohammed.

But the name Mohammed got me thinking about Islam and religion in general. Religion would fit the quote on the cup perfectly. A person following a religion makes a promise to live their life according to God, Allah, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc. And every other member of the congregation also makes the same promise, changing the promise into a mission, to live their lives according to [insert deity's name here]. Generally this would include spreading the word about said religion.

Religion is the strongest agent of change in this world and it's the greatest resister of change as well. Every year Christians all over the country march on Washington to protest the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe V Wade which legalized abortion. While it has yet to be overturned, Christians from different states and different ethnicities all join together for one mission: the hope that the Supreme Court will decide again that life begins at conception. On the other hand, the Catholic church does not always welcome change with open arms. It has yet to allow women to be ordained priests or allow priests to marry. In this way, the church's mission is to continue with tradition.

Anyways, I like the whole idea of promises, every one of them. Lifelong marriage commitments, pinky swears, "if we're both 40 and neither of us are married...", or just the simple promise not to laugh, I think all of these commit us to each other and tangle us in the giant web of all humanity.