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Few days ago I had a small conversation [cyberly speaking] with one of my friend. It wasn’t a deep talk. But it’s deep enough if you try to dig in it. It’s simply about religions. How we both act about it. What we think about it. How we concern to others about it. Just simply about religions and people with or without religions.

My friend feels that it doesn’t matter much to him about his friends’ religions. There’s never a portion for religions in friendships. What ever it is he’d be treating his friends equally, which sounds good for me.

Back in the old days, what I mean is my old days. I have many friends with different background of religions. Some good with what they believe. Some just believe but not doing any good. And some just doing it too much and believing it to deep, but not making them a good person in friendships. Or some other that believe that they are good enough in what they believe.

Back in to my old neighborhood. Everybody just likes or hates anybody, occasionally or frequently, despite what religions the other has. Nobody cares much about it, because we grew up like brothers and sisters. It wasn’t just about friendships.

Get back in to my present live. Seems like everybody so open minded about other’s religion. And it seems like they just don’t give a damn about other’s religion. What they care about is how they do their rituals to their Gods. Why Gods? I lived in Bali. “The island of the Gods”. They don’t care about what the other people would do to who ever the God is. This is one of thing that I love about Bali.

Then get back again to the cyber; where my friend is; at least in one small corner of it. I found many interesting things there. Some news about religions that might blew up anger on people’s minds. Some other news about how the celebrities expose their religion.
Or just some simple posts on the blogs, just like mine. There are posts about how to be a better person in religious way. Some other posts speaking about how other religions are not as good enough as theirs. And even hatred shown in a big capital letters about other religions.
The sad thing is, on most of these kinds of post; some people still leave their resentment comments. Sometime it doesn’t even have any relation to the topic. As long as they can express their false and fool thoughts on the comment box; it’ll be just enough for them. Or even better if there are other people that will screaming back at them. Really sad isn’t it?

Now, back and end in to my crazy mind. The crazy mind that brought up in a moderate family of mine. Whit a Dad whom educated by the military. A Mom who’s actively practicing the religion in, out and around the church. And they both make really good friends with many kinds of other religion.
They taught me to except others as equally as I want them to except me, no matter what their religion is. I taught to care to others, whom ever they are. Not to hate anybody, even the one that hates me. They didn’t teach me with words; but they taught me with actions and reactions. This is just simple basic things that have been there in my mind since I was a little girl; even then the mind went crazy.
Then live taught me about many things; that almost made me end up as an agnostic; but thank goodness I am not. About how should I react or not to react at all about religion. About what to think and not to think about other, or my religion. About how to just silently or loudly speaking, or even screaming about the religion.
Then now I conclude; and still continuing learning; about my thoughts from all the teachers I had and will still have; that religion for me is just a mark that some people loves to keep. Some keep it only because they want to believe in something. Some just want it to be there so they’re not marked as an atheist or even communist; even though communism should not have anything to do with religion. And some just keep it to gain some fortunes by making a new religion that have many followers.
And what’s important to myself and my crazy mind is how I believe in GOD as an individual human being that created by HIS own hands. And about how I should continuing living among other people with my basic taught of my parents. Because for me believing is not just to believe in GOD, but also about how I should trust HIM, to put HIM first in the front line of my life, to act the way HE taught me as shown in HIS life as a human, to think the way and in the way HE think about anything. And in a simple phrase is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” [Mathew 22:37]; and to “do to others what you would have them do to you” [Mathew 7:12].