Why the reilgion rant?
It goes back a long way, probably to childhood, experiences with the more religious faction of my family and that I hated going to Sunday school.
The older I got, the more I questioned.
As a child I had friends who were Catholic. The ‘unbaptized baby’ thing mystified me. How could an infant, someone just born, have sinned? This little thing hasn’t done anything to anyone, yet if not baptized, and it dies, hell is its future!
On a trip to the Grand Canyon with my Seventh-Day Adventist relatives, I asked my cousin why they didn’t have a TV.
“Because God didn’t intend us to watch TV.” he said
I wondered aloud, “If God didn’t intend us to watch TV, then why did he give us the brains to build it?” He couldn’t answer that question.
The entire rant on religion can be boiled down to one underlying theme:
Don’t try to shove what you believe down my throat.
That’s my main complaint about the Christians I rant about.
In the comment posted in “What’s In Your Bible” about allowing others to be on their own path… I do! That’s fine, but just don’t ever try to force your path on anyone else.
I am not afraid to be accosted by the Jehovah’s Witnesses or Mormons. We’ve had some very pleasant conversations! Unlike most people who avoid them at any cost, I will talk with them because they listen to what I have to say and don’t tell me I’m wrong. When I explain that, ‘I see God everywhere’ they agree.
It is the ones who insist that God cannot be ‘in’ or ‘with’ you or that you are outside of God, because you believe differently, that worry me.
God IS.
God IS… around, through, in, because of, accessible, encompassed in and revealed through everything.
God is in everyone one who walks this earth. Our life, our spark that animates us, is God.
There is no way that ANY of us can be separate, in life or after death, from God.
