The story “This Blessed House” makes me ask multiple questions. One of the first ones being, why did the people in the house before them leave all of the Christian stuff behind. Is there some sort of symbolism behind that? Were they trying to leave a witness to the next owners? Were they turning from the Christian faith? Any ideas…?
Another question I found myself asking was, if I was placed in a similar situation, how would I react if my wife started relishing old “buddhist” statues? Most likely I would have a problem with it. I would feel like my wife was compromising what she believed in. I also feel like it would also be even tougher if my wife had a personality like Twinkle.
Also, it makes me wonder if Twinkle, by accepting the Christian artifacts is more secure in her faith than Sanjeev, or more open to other beliefs? Because at first I automatically assumed that Sanjeev must be more dedicated to his religion than Twinkle since she doesn’t seem to have any problem with other religions, but when I really thought about it, maybe it is because he is weaker. Maybe he can’t handle having other religious artifacts around because he is more insecure in his Hinduism faith than Twinkle. Especially since at times when I feel like I am not as string in my faith I tend to be even more aggressive toward other religions and beliefs. Why? I couldn’t really tell you, that’s just how it is.
So, does anybody else have any different views or opinions on some of the things I brought up? Because I love hearing all the different perspectives everyone in our class always seem to have. Also, that is really the whole point of this blog, to dialogue with each other in between classes, right?
I was asking myself the same thing "why did the people in the house before them leave all the Christian stuff behind?"
ReplyDeleteI think by Twinkle accepting the Christian artifacts she is more open to other beliefs. I believe it said somewhere in the story that she thought the house was blessed and she wanted to keep the Christian items because of that. I think Sanjeev was more concerned with what other people thought of them. As he stated that they were Hindus and questioned what people would think of them having this christian paraphernalia.
I think to Sanjeev it was more about the apperance than his beliefs. I also think that Twinkle saying face it this house is blessed implys that she finds Christianity to hold some truth. Just my thoughts..
ReplyDeletemaybe the people who left the christian stuff behind dis so because they were lead by God to? who knows haha
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