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Silly Hindsight #1
by Aaron
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During the summers after my freshman and sophomore years of high school I went with my church's youth group on two-week forays into the middle of Mexico, specifically in San Luis Potosi. We were there to build our houses in heaven because apparently there aren't enough gullible non-Christian Americans who think it's cute when 16 year olds in matching t-shirts sing songs in a market. It really chaps my taint now that I think about those trips. We spent part of the day doing labor around town and in the country, and even though it was just work and the weather was fantastic in the mountains we whined and whined and drank fanta and coke. In the evenings we'd head down to a market somewhere and start singing these hymns and shit we'd memorized in Spanish and then people would preach between songs. It's probably hard for most of my current friends to believe I was into this. Going down to teach the poor ignorant Mexicans why our religion was better. We were there to say, hey, your religion and ways of life are inferior and everything your culture has ingrained in you is flawed because hey, we're American, we know. Then after we laid a few bricks for our supernatural abodes we'd go buy a bunch of shit in the markets because the exchange rate was ludicrous. What an example we set. The most obnoxious part to me wasn't the arrogance with which we approached our role there, but the hypocrisy of our reactions to the trip. There were always emotional testimonials and people talking about how they were new people, their lives were changed. But we were usually back to our old ways before we were even back in Texas. That still bugs me. We had no perspective and thought we'd done such an immense service to ourselves and the nation of Mexico. Crazy what religion does to people. |
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