Interviewing someone of another religion, not the easiest task, especially when in some form or another religion is deeply rooted in almost all humans. To interview someone from another religion takes patience, understanding, the ability to listen, and above all tolerance. Those are just a few of the keys I noticed myself using during my interview with a man whom I not only respect but also call a friend and co-worker. His name is Nick.

Nick grew up in Waupun, WI. One in a family of four, he attended a Methodist church as a child until the age of ten before he was not made to go any longer. Nick now considers himself nothing (Atheist), at twenty seven years old church means nothing to him; he doesn’t use the term or concept of God except to swear with. When the question “Why don’t you believe in God” was asked Nick simply stated “Never saw him do anything worth believing.”

 The largest religious influence in Nick’s life and the one who took him to church is his mother, who still attends church services on holidays. The only tradition is she gives Nick and his brother one present on Christmas. The gift exchange is one sided he tells me as his brother and him do not give a gift back for Christmas although they do give their mother things throughout the year. Nick enjoys the presents he gets from his mother at Christmas but he never had much interest in the Christian aspect. Traditions and church are to Nick are “nothing but old boring people and a waste of time” and he doesn’t care to be part of it

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Nick has handled his own problems for as long as he can remember, he has always stood alone. While growing up at the age of fourteen Nick started partying and drinking and by seventeen was expelled from high school for drinking and fighting. When asked if he thought God had any part of his young life he said: “Jordan, none that I’d call God.” Nick does not consider himself a good person just someone who’s trying to make it through life, unbelieving in Heaven or Hell, just work. Nick stated “I gotta work for everything cause nothing is just given, and if ...

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