More Frustration

In Spanish class today, we talked about some of the culture of most Spanish speaking countries in accordance to their religion, Catholicism. We were talking about this because today is Good Friday and Easter is this Sunday. My teacher, Sra. Bark, was talking about some of the rituals and celebrations they practiced, and added a side comment about how her mother was appalled that we were having school today. That led to Max saying that because of the rule separation of church and state it justifies school being in session. Sra. Bark then said that he couldn’t tell her that when there are clubs like FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) and FJA (Fellowship of Jewish Athletes) and when there are prayer sessions at the flag pole.

Reanne Mason, a student in our class, decided to pipe in at this time by saying something along the lines of “FJA contradicts itself because fellowship is a Christian thing.” I cringe as I think in my head “You have got to be kidding me.” Even Gandhi said that he liked Jesus, just not his followers. It is because those followers don’t represent Jesus as they should. They are often prideful as Reanne is here, claiming that the word “fellowship” is only Christian.

After making that statement Max and Drew, two classmates, decided to challenge that statement. She continued to defend her statement, all the while I was wincing. They disproved her pointing out that a word cannot be owned a religion, that words are used by whomever and that there aren’t restrictions on who can use them. Realizing that she had lost, she angrily says, “Just shut up and listen to her [the teacher].”


I was extremely frustrated, to say the least because I have had some talks with Max about the question of an existing God. She is a catholic and lets the world know what she believes every chance she gets. In other words she’s obnoxious. She is misrepresenting Jesus to the class and all the while confirming to Max that there is no God and even if he did exist, he wouldn’t want anything to do with him if that’s what his followers act like.

I think she means well when she does things like that, but really she is hammering away on the already battered reputation of Christians. I think I would propose one thing for her to do before speaking, and that is to think about the implications of her words.