A soft spot...

My pops always used to tell me growing up "that in mixed company there are three things you should never deiscuss because it tends to infuriate certain people no matter how pure your intentions are..And those subjects are religion, sex, and politics.". I never understood what exactly why though. To be completely honest I STILL don't understand completely why those subjects make people so mad...I'm sure there is some willful naivity on my part that keeps me from understanding...because those are pretty much my favorite subjects to talk about.

Thing is...I don't hang in politically mixed settings so I damn near never have any political squabbles. The same thing with "sex". Everywhere I hang everybody loves it. Nobody really has a problem with the mainstream events in sex...Hell nowadays porn cats struggle to keep up with real life...lol...

The only thing I ever come into conflict in is the subject of religion. I've actually had my very first real relationship end over that ish...

What happened? Remember the Million More Movement that popped off like 5 years back? Well I was there and I loved every second of it. I left there feeling empowered. I left there feeling like the world was gonna change overnight. Like black people were gonna finally come together and have a worldwide sense of empowerment once again. Boy was I mistaken. I came back to MI drunk with positivity. Told my then girlfriend what had went down at the march and she said I shouldn't be shouldn't believe that things would change...

Not because of the complexities of the world...
Not because things take time...

But because Ferrakahn is a Muslim, not a Christian...and it says in the Bible that you shouldn't listen to people from different religions.

I being who I am, disagreed. I said that ideal is ridiculous. That there are too many intelligent people on this planet to just write them off because they don't share your same religious beliefs. I also asked that if a doctor came forward and said he or she had the cure for aids would she write dude off...She said yes. I then said "Well in that case I don't even share your religious beliefs! Are you gonna wite me off too."

Famous last words...
and just like that she ended the relationship.

Ever since then I've kinda charged into religious discussions. And no matter what...if they aren't at the same wavelength as I am...the other person always gets upset. No matter what the tone is. No matter how non-insulting I may be. If I'm talking anything other than what they exactly believe eventually they will always get upset.

Hopefully, one of these days something will click. A switch will turn on or something...