#0110 | a loquacious bush

Submitted by Anshula in Storrs, Connecticut.

Here’s Anshula’s story:

“One of the freshman rites of passage at my university involves taking a series of required humanities courses that most students loathe.

Secretly, I’m really having fun with a comparative religion class.  Not having been raised in the Judeo-Christian tradition, I’m always struck by how many parts of the religion sound so very weird.  We were assigned to read selected passages from the Bible and it’s so user-unfriendly.  Not only is the language fantastic, but some of the tales are just unbelievable.  I just read it and think, “A talking, burning bush?  Really?”

Then I realized that this must be how most of my friends see my religion, or any religion that is different from their own, and I know there are a lot of things I believe that are probably just as ‘unbelievable.’”