Upholding good Christian Values

You run into all kinds of people on the South Shore train. Some are entertaining, some are not. Then out of those people who are entertaining, there are those who mean to be, and those who do not... This is a story about the last group of people.

The trip started off on an ominous note when I got separated from my usual group, and ended up sitting next to a college age girl and a college aged guy. They were both were of the friendly, non-commuter sort, and within no time had a conversation going. Turns out that they were both born again Christians. Now I don't have any problem with that, to each his own, and it isn't up to me to judge people. But instantly these two were trying to one up each other over who had bigger asperations and who was doing more to be a good person. Finally the guy "won" by declaring that his main goal was to go to Africa and minister the word of God, which definately topped the girl who wanted to be a lawyer. After that part of the conversation mercifully died, they then started nickpicking at specific sects of churches and the problems that they had with their styles of worship. I guess they missed the part in the bible about "judge not, lest ye be judged", or maybe I missed the commandment that said exactly what makes up a church service... It was definately one day I was glad they were cutting off cars and we had to move up.