Second Blog

SECOND BLOG
Well, I am now going to blog about what I thought about the book as I was reading the middle of it. So when I was towards the middle of the book, I thought it was an ok book. It was alright. Yes, there were some bad spots in it that I didn’t like, but otherwise it was okay. It wasn’t really that boring. There were some funny parts in it that made me laugh. I would sit there with a smile on my face. But then I got to chapter eight. This chapter caught my attention.
This chapter was titled Conversations with Gawd. I started reading the chapter. This chapter was about him going to church when he was little. One time, they were told that if they came EVERY Sunday to Sunday school, they would win a prize. This was no ordinary prize. You couldn’t buy it in a store. They had to go to Sunday school for 52 weeks and never miss a Sunday to be able to get the prize. So out of twenty-five or thirty kids, three of them made it. They went up to the front and got a small, white, expensive-looking box. Inside they found a greenish white plastic sign mounted on a brown plastic base that read JESUS SAVES. Crutch got very disappointed. But then they preacher turned out the lights and the sign glowed. JESUS SAVES was glowing. Chris got very excited. When he got home, he closed himself up in his room and turned out the lights, and just sat there staring at his prize.
His brother came downstairs, and wanted to look at Chris’s prize. He took it and Chris started grabbing it back. That’s when the J broke off of JESUS SAVES. Now what was left was ESUS SAVES. Crutch started crying like a bawl baby. John, his brother, started telling him that he could break his toys. But Chris was smarter than that. Then John tried something else. He asked Chris if he knew that Jesus had an older brother. This got Chris interested even though he knew it wasn’t true. To keep Chris from telling on him, John made up a story of how Jesus had an older brother that was the smarter one, but he wasn’t very well known. He named that imaginary man Esus. Chris didn’t believe him, but John said that if Chris would tell the parents, they would take away his glowing statue because no one was supposed to know about Esus. That shut Chris up. And he didn’t tell his parents. Throughout Chris’s life, his brother John kept repeatedly lying to him to keep himself out of trouble.
The rest of the chapter is about how when Chris would question the teacher, he would be sent outside the classroom, to sit on the bench. Chris always needed to know the right answer and be able to understand everything that was in the Bible. Crutcher admits that he is not a Christian and believes that there was a big bang and here we are now. I do not agree with that. I believe that God created the world, and sent his only son, Jesus to die on the cross for us. There was no big bang, which blew up matter that came from nowhere and all of a sudden created Earth. In the beginning there was God, and HE created Earth, not a big bang, that *poof* blew up and here we are. He brought up a lot of interesting points in this chapter. He says that life is fair, when asked if he thought if life was fair, and said that it was people that were not fair. Not life. I agree with that. It is because of the people’s choices that they think that life is not fair, when it is perfectly fair.