Have you ever been approached by those Bible pushers that try to tell you about their opinions of God and it is really hard to walk away from them? I have. Twice this week.
The first was Tuesday at Tyson's Corner. I was heading into Barne's and Noble to see if I could find something interesting to put into my sister's Thanksgiving basket, but before I could enter a white guy with smoothly combed black hair wearing a suit and a really short girl with cue cards stopped me and asked if it was okay if they asked me a question.
"Yeah, sure . . . " I said. I was hesitant because I thought that if they had a question about the layout of the mall or anything else equally trivial they would have just come out and asked it without prefacing it by asking permission.
"Have you ever heard of God the Mother?" The guy asked.
"Well um, I . . . "
"You see, the reason I ask this is because many people have not. Most people believe that God is a he. In The Bible it refers to God as a he. Jesus is a he, and is refferred to as the son of God. This is another reference to God being a he."
I didn't really care at all about "God the Mother" because I don't follow any versions of The Bible, but I was intrigued so I kept up conversation with him. "Well, actually today in one of my classes we talked about God being referred to as a he, but we were told that most believers see God as having no gender at all."
"A lot of people think that, but it is actually not true!"
He was going on to say more about this but was interrupted by the mall cop that came up between him and the woman. He asked the guy, "Do you know this woman? Are you friends?" He then looked at me.
I responded, "No, I don't know him. I don't know him."
The cop then explained to the guy that, "You can't ask this girl those questions here. I saw you approach a few other people over there, and over there." He pointed to various places behind us. "This is soliciting and isn't allowed. I need you both to come to my office." Then he turned to me, "You have to leave now ma'am."
After that I went into the store but was really confused and surprised about what had just happened. I don't think I have ever had anything like that happen to me and I thought it was really funny. After the cop came up though, I got kind of creeped out. I kept thinking they may have been some scam artists or something trying to rob me or something. But fortunately that didn't happen.
And if all of that wasn't weird enough, today something very similar, but much weirder happened. I was sitting at a table in the library. I was sitting by myself and there was one empty seat across from me that was waiting to be filled by my boyfriend. As I was concentrating on my outline for my Othello paper, an Asian girl asked me if she could sit with me.
"No, someone is meeting me, sorry."
She then said something inaudible due to her accent and mumbling.
"This seat is taken. Someone is meeting me here. Sorry." I guess she was confused or got the point because she walked away.
I went back to my work then a few minutes later she just sat down in the seat across from me and asked me if I wanted to read the "book" she was wrote. "I have most of my pages at home, but here are a few." She handed me a page torn out from a magazine with a picture of a blond girl on it whom I didn't recognize. There was handwritten Korean writing at the top and underneath in quotes were, what I am guessing, lyrics to a song. "Do you watch MTBU?"
"MTV news?"
"No, MTBU."
"Um, no. I don't know what that is." I was already feeling really uncomfortable at this point and looked around, wondering where my boyfriend was so he could rescue me from this girl I knew nothing about except that she was a little off.
She looked at me like I was weird. "It is where they play music videos. MTBU."
"Oh, MTV?"
"Yeah, MTB. Well the top part is Korean. Um, yeah Korean. Have you ever heard of Josa?" I shook my head. "Well he is in The Bible. Josa drank water. He walked around and drank water. He was going to go travelling with Moses. Have you heard of Moses?" I nodded. This was so weird to me. I kept thinking I was on Boiling Points or something. This encouraged me to stay patient but it was becoming difficult for me to suppress a laugh because I was so confused. "Him and Moses were gonna go trabel. Trabel to America, and, and, um Australia. They were gonna go to America. When they get to America all the supplies were there. They were blessed supplies and they were all ready there and set up for them. See, look at my notes."
On the page, along with more Korean writing and some other weird scribblings was a sentence that said something like, "Those who find a passion in food making will be the best ones to make a career out of it." I did not see how this related in the least bit so I just shook my head because I didn't really care what she had to say I was just freaked out that she was so weird and didn't make sense. I looked at the stamp on her text book which said "Bryant High School", which is a correctional high school, one step away from juvie. Then I got nervous and thought back to Tuesday about how they may have been scam artists. I thought maybe she was just trying to confuse me so much that I wouldn't realize her taking the wallet out of my backpack, which was under the table, or my laptop that was right next to it. She wasn't scamming. She kept going on about weird things that didn't relate and I just kept wondering where my boyfriend was. She asked me about what school I sent to and what I did in high school to prepare for college. I answered in the shortest sentences I could and didn't ask her any questions in return.
Finally, she started packing up her stuff and seemed as if she was about to leave, but she kept talking. My boyfriend came up to me at that moment. He knew I wanted to get away from this girl because I had texted him to help me. He was like, "Ready to go?" and I said, "Yes."
The girl then asked me how I got to the library if I go to George Mason. I told her I drove there. Now I felt even more awkward because my boyfriend was there. It is embarrassing enough dealing with a weirdo all by myself but if someone is watching me I feel even more awkward. At last, she left. My boyfriend sat where she had gotten up. The librarian walked over to my table.
It was the same librarian that had chastised my boyfriend and I about a year ago for laughing too loudly so I thought she was going to say we were being too loud again. Instead, she asked if I was okay and if I knew that girl. I told her I didn't. She said, "I thought so. It looked like something fishy was going on. Next time anything like that ever happens again just come get one of us and we will take care of it for you." All three of us laughed a little and I thanked her. My boyfriend and I then moved to a different table.
Is that weird to anyone else?! If I get any more Bible-lovers approach me I really don't know what I will do. I am not mad at all. I am confused! I have nothing against Christians or Catholics or any other religion at all. I just don't know why they are trying to push it on me. It is very strange.
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