I went to Ann Arbor yesterday, not because it was the annual Hash Bash, but because I wanted to see The Breakfast, some old clients of mine back when my life was nothing but college and freelance web design work.
I’ll work on getting the pictures from everything up online, but the thing that amused me the most was the religious presence in Ann Arbor. At the corner of University and State, there were people taking turns standing on a platform yelling at passers by about how everyone was going to hell from sin, less they repent immediately. It’s one of those things you think you’ll never really see in person. For those who missed it, I remembered that my digicam does video. It’s great how the kids just kinda laugh in their faces.
Interestingly enough, the bible-thumpers weren’t the only ones bringing their message of love, there was also a small parade of Hare Krishnas wandering about.
After I stopped filming, I heard someone say “If I had to choose between 2 religions, and one was telling me what an awful person I was and the other said ‘Lets go out in the street to dance and sing!’, I know what choice I would make”.
Well put. The Christians were calling people out, pointing at them as they walked through the crosswalk, telling people that they lead lives of sin and were going to die because of it. Had this been in Detroit, they probably would have gotten killed themselves.
