I like respectful discussions and interfaith dialogue

Learning about people’s different belief systems and personal values is fascinating. I enjoy discussing philosophy and theology. My mental health outreach worker is Episcopalian Christian and she didn’t want to offend me by assuming I believed what she did in Christianity and she said whatever someone believes in some sort of higher power. For some people it’s Buddha or whoever. And some people don’t believe in any higher power. Yet for her God is there and everyone is put on this earth for a reason as part of some plan in her view. Interfaith dialogue is really important in my view and she was sharing her experience in relating to my struggles. So there is a respectful way to share faith matters and if it’s relevant to the conversation I see no problem with mentioning it. I believe in a higher power but it’s more like a hybrid belief system between monotheism and polytheism and add animism and pantheism to it. We were at Dunkin’ Donuts talking about having more confidence in myself and abilities and such. She also does not condone discrimination like refusal of service to gender and sexual minorities because she thinks that is very hypocritical and mean. I like my mental health team my clinician and my mental health outreach worker, my therapist and my psychiatrist. I like my former caseworker/case manager. At the end of the day we are all just human beings trying to do our best with what we have. Getting exposed to different people helps me remember not to judge people based on the demographic they come from because even within specific demographics there is a lot of diversity within views and behavior. My mental health outreach worker does speak a bit differently from me meaning African American vernacular English which has its own linguistic nuances but I’m glad she doesn’t feel the need to code switch. She did say how boring would this world be if we all dressed, spoke, thought, acted, etc. alike. People can be different from each other and yet still respect and accept others for who they are.