Blasphemy!!!

Exodus 20:7 says “You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.” A very strong statement, don’t you think? Well I do.

As I approached my timeline to create an act of resistance, I was truly running out of ideas!!! I was drawing on a blank, I didn’t have an idea on what to protest. And then Ahong came along with a very clever idea. She wanted to protest the use of God’s name in vain, so I decided to jump on that wagon and join in her in the cause.

At first I really wasn’t sure where this was going to get us to. Don’t get my wrong, I loved the idea, but I really didn’t know what was going to be outcome of this. Ahong planned the activity and we all agree to wear a shirt, which Ahong made, to school on Monday. The shirts said “Don’t offend my God, I don’t offend yours”. Though simple, the message was very direct and to my believe very powerful. I had more than a few of my fellow classmates what the shirt was all about.

Once I came home I had to go and get a hair cut. So I just dropped my book bag off at home and drove myself to the barber shop. When I got there, it was pretty empty, but nevertheless my shirt was still intriguing to the few people there. I began to explain the idea behind it and they thought it was pretty neat that we all took some of our time and dedicated it to fight for what we believe is right.

If I was given the chance to do this again I think that I will probably dedicate more time in being involved in the creation of the shirts and also I think I will like to make this act of resistance more public and recreate it on a larger scale.

I personally believe that the act of resistance was very impacting, although it’s not going to be an overnight change, I believe that this has raised awareness about this topic. I think, better yet, hope that people will take more consideration in respecting the sensibilities of others when it comes to things like using God’s name in vain. I will most definitely like to continue with acts as this, and I think it will be really cool if we all did one as a class. Got any ideas?