Sharing Faith

One of the things that I struggled to understand after reading "This Blessed House" was the reasoning as to why the previous owners left all of the Christian trinkets. Some of them, such as the towel or the snow globe, are small enough and of little enough value as to be understandable, and replaceable. But there are others, such as the sticker thing on the window, and especially the silver bust that I think would be dearly missed. That is why I came to the conclusion that the previous owners were attempting to witness to the new owners, whether they knew they were not Christians or not. If I were moving into a house that had all sorts of knick knacks that pointed to a certain religion, especially one that I was unfamiliar with, I would be curious enough to dig deeper and try and understand the artifacts and the meanings behind them. The previous owners could have thought this way too, and hoped that in searching for the meanings, the new owners would convert. In my religion class, we focused on conversion, and one of the main things we talked about was the stimulus that drove the people to seek out a religion. These artifacts would act as such a stimulus.