This Blessed House

The short story we read in class (a long time ago, I know, I have trouble remembering to come back here) was interesting to me. It looked into the idea of religion, and what exactly that can mean as far as what people with different religions can mean to each other. In the story there is a little statuette of Jesus, and this causes some trouble for Sanjeeve, a lot more that it would to, say, a guy named Mike, who was Christian. It just goes to show you that you can never really be sure just what's going to offend someone, and, in my experience, it's probably better not to leave behind your Jesus. Really though, religion is one of those things that is always going to be touchy. It's a cut that's scabbed over and keeps ripping off, every day, thousands of times per day, and it will do that forever. Some people don't believe in God, or in any God, or in anything religious at all. And even those people get offended by stuff like this. It's a lot more powerful than you might think, at first.