Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

Actually, when I first launched this task force, I actually went and I met with a Ethiopian Orthodox pastor, if you will, just to kind of see and explain and ask questions about

that I can't exactly go to, you know, the Smithsonian and ask.

And, you know, his response was interesting, especially from their perspective.

You know, you have a lot of this aspect of, I think, religion that tries to be doom and gloom.

And then in the Ethiopian perspective, he's like, first of all, your timeline's wrong.

And I'm like, what do you mean your timeline?

He's like, well, the biblical text in modern day Christianity, it's a little bit off, right?

So we use a completely separate, I think it's 364 days out of the year.

And he's explaining all of it

And he's like, but even then, so, you know, we don't have the perspective of, you know, we are in the end of days, et cetera.

But, you know, the way his perspective just seemed very optimistic as opposed to pessimistic and filtering and controlling information.

He's off X. Yeah.

They kind of talk him on, right?

They'll give them something and say, walk us through.

Or just an aspect of spirituality that we've previously forgotten because we're in such a digital age that kind of programs you into the rat race.

And I think people, the more that they're kind of like, you know, there has to be more to life than just like a nine to five.

And, you know, working for this aspect of materialism, like, don't get me wrong.

I like, you know, a nice car and a clean house and all that.

But, you know, there's also this aspect of, you know, being a human.

And like, you know, if you have kids, I think that's like one of the things like I have, you have a daughter, I have a son.