Religious

Bill Maher brings home a fact that has left me dumb founded for years on end. I was brought up in a Presbyterian house hold. And was, in fact, cast out of the Church for bringing up, in Sunday School, a problem when I was eight years old. I wanted to know how Jesus, who was dead as far as I was concerned, came alive after days and was brought up to Heaven. I wanted to know how the Doctors made him go from dead to un-dead. And wouldn't that mean he was a Zombie? The Church Lady was all up in arms over this. It was a question I though had to be answered. So there I went, un-christened, for the rest of my life.

I mean, I was eight years old, who was I going to tell? I just went on with my life at that point. Until I had a stroke at age 46. I was left with no speech. Inside I was OK, but outside, I was a mess. There was no paralysis. In fact you would not look at me and tell there had been any change at all. It took me 2.10 years to get over the stroke. During the stroke, I watch Religious and it really hit home with me. During the stroke, Meditation was one of the ways I brought peace to myself. But the whole Zen, Buddhist thing made me uneasy. But I did it anyway.

So why is it that Meditation brings in all sorts of kooks?

 It was like : "He's into Meditation."

"Oh really, he must be a Buddhist!"

What? I am into Meditation because it strengthens my mind. That is it.

Anyway, back to Bill, it is cool he really came at it, getting the facts straight and staying with it. But with Religious there is going to be, well, a Holy War to end all Holy Wars. It will not take a month, a year, 10 years this is going to be a frightful case in which no one can win. There are many, many among us who say this :

There is nothing after we are dead. We are ashes in the wind.

And that is ok.

But the there are others for the cash it brings in, for the "Holy Scriptures" it brings forth and they will say your are either for us or against us. And the "against us" will bring down the whip to so you whose the boss.