What are your religious beliefs?
I’m kind of in between right now. I’m not far enough to say that I’m an atheist but I’m not a fundamentalist either. I guess the best way to describe me would be to say that I’m agnostic. I’ve been looking at a church called the Universal Life Church and it’s only commandment is to do good. And I think that it’s something I need if I want to get back to the mainstream Christianity. Because one of the reasons that I started questioning my beliefs is because I see a lot of Christians claiming evil in the name of good.
If you're a Christian, when did you accept Christ?
I accepted Christ when I was ten. It’s just that recently in the last year or so I have begun to question, so, if I die soon I’ll be going to heaven because if once saved always saved if heaven is real. If heaven is not real than I’m not going to be disappointed either.
What church do you attend? How are you active there?
I’m not really all that active. I’m a member by letter of Boiling Springs Baptist.
Are you active in the community?
I’m active in my hall community. I’m active in my community back home in Morganton as much as I can be. But in Boiling Springs, at large, I’m not involved. I just sorta stay on GW and do my stuff there.
Have you been on any mission trips?
No. I almost went when I was in 8th grade but something came up and my family couldn’t afford it. And my church didn’t have the funds. Which kind of upset me because I worked that summer at VBS and they said it was training for your mission and than all of a sudden I couldn’t go.
How do you witness to people?
My dad always told me, and this is a cliché, that actions speak louder than words. So if I’m going to show someone that I’m a good person than I’m not going to talk about how I saved a baby from a burning building. I’ll freaking show you. It might not be something as brave and heroic as saving someone’s life but a random act of kindness. To show through my actions that I am who I say I am. And I leave it up to you to judge who I am.
What are your parents’ beliefs?
Baptist. My mom used to be a Methodist because my grandpa was a Methodist minister and she lived in a place called Bayou La Batry. One of her sisters fell in a cesspool which isn’t good. Fun fact—Bubba from Forrest Gump—Bayou La Batry was his hometown.
What is your political standpoint?
At heart I am an anarchist. But not in the burning buildings kind of way. I believe that we can all be equal and be able to govern ourselves, because anarchy is the absence of government. But for political purposes I am a registered libertarian which is the closest thing you can get to a legal political party because anarchists aren’t going to make their own political party.
What do you think are some major issues in the world to you? What do you think you can do about them/want to do about them?
You’ve got AIDS, and Ebola in Africa. And as well as hunger all over the world. You’ve got world poverty. And you’ve got wars of genocide and of political gain across the global. I would like to feed the hungry. Home the homeless. Give to the poor. And melt down the guns of the soldiers. But let’s be realistic all that I can do is feed the hungry and house the homeless. All the other things are out of my control as a individual. It’s going to take all of us to get those things done.
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