Day 10: Write Something for which you feel Strongly…

I don’t know if there is something that I feel strongly about…something that I am willing to stand up and die for…or stand up and fight for…

…But…

….I have often had this reoccurring dream…I am in a movie theatre, the theatre is full….and while some trailer is playing the lights go on and the screen switches off. Suddenly a group of men storm into the theatre. They are all dressed in Islamic attire and  and are carrying machine guns.  Of course to grab our attention they set off a their guns, killing a number of people. We are all screaming and trying to duck behind seats. Suddenly the shooting stops and one of the men demands all those still alive to stand up. We all stand up and on the screen an Arabic prayer comes up and we are all told to recite the prayer repeatedly, or we will be killed. While the group chants the prayer I keep quite. One of the terrorists notice that I am not chanting the prayer along with everyone else and makes everyone stop…points the gun in my face and demands that I say the prayer…I look at him and tell him that I do not believe in Allah, nor do I believe that any loving Father would proclaim that the only way into heaven would be by killing all non believers and following only him. I loudly recite the Jewish Prayer ‘The Shema’, in Hebrew. He cocks his gun…and I wake up.

Now thankfully that is all just a dream…I don’t know if I would even really do that, should I ever be in a situation like that. I mean I would like to believe that I would be so brave and able to stand up for what I believe in but when you have a machine gun pointed at you and your life is in the hands of someone who already has blood on their hands and someone who has such strong beliefs and carries no true love for humanity and freedom of personal belief and other religions, I don’t think I would be so brave.

But I guess I feel strongly for standing up for what you personally feel and believe is right and respecting each other and all our differences. I know every religion, in some way believes that that religion is the only way into Heaven…but since my history and family is so mixed up and filled with people from all different corners of the world and from different communities…I like to believe that at the end of the day we are all praying to the same Father and he is the one that decided who enters his gates when time comes, regardless you may be Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist…he will look into our hears and soul and decide who lived a life worthy of him.