My mom yesterday at dinner was looking over the pictures from the service in China with some friends and she off-handedly was telling them that she would like to bring the pastor who did the service into the factory. I really should of left it alone seeing as it wasn't really an appropriate moment but i had to ask why she would bring him in. Her reply was basically so that he could talk to them and share the gospel and whatnot. I remember once in China when my mom queried this one worker if he had remembered the song she had played for him. He did a little bit and tried to whistle it for her. My mom brightened up because it was a song from a Christian CD and she said that they had "never heard it before."



My problem with what my mom said was basically her intent to bring religion into people's lives. These aren't friends or family, they are purely workers. Of course whatever you do they will be influenced to pay particular attention. My mom kind of jokingly said that "i'm the boss." It's nice to share things that are important to you but when you do it in a business capacity then i think you're taking it too far. But in general that is what happens alot with religion (especially Christianity). This overwhelming urge to share "the truth" at any and every turn annoys me to no end. Just becaues i like hip hop music doesn't mean that i should be able to hold a special session for "Hip Hop 101" and share that with the factory workers.



It's perhaps petty of me but i kind of get weirded out by high amount of Christianity that my mom is bringing into the services. My dad was not Christian and while he may have been more interested as he got older it strikes me as odd that suddenly everyone is praying left and right in our house. I don't have a huge problem with having a Christian ceremony if that's what my mom wants but her sudden assertation of all this Christian thinking is putting me on edge. I am half expecting, half avoiding the time when she'll ask me to talk to the pastor about any "questions or regrets" i might have.