Religion: What Is It To me?

Once you know the truth, you don't get free....you get pissed off! I get angry, and today I have to say something about something. There is nonsense, and there are lies that effect peoples lives in a very long lasting and terrific ways. I am not talking about politics, which is one of my passions. I'm talking about RELIGION.

What is religion...Religion is a conceptual frame work of who God is....What He looks like, what His will is...etc. It is in the mind. It is thinking about God and our relation to Him and His relationship to us. It is 90% Bullshit...you know that pie in the field that gets hard and you can use it to burn. The mind cannot conceive God...God is not in the mind...We are not minds...we are beings with a soul contained with in this body of flesh.

Let me ask you a question...answer it...really. Is love religion? Is peace religion? How about Joy...is joy religion? What about your mother....? Is she Religion? If you answered yes, you need a spychiatrist not a priest. Your mother is not religion...either is love or peace or joy! You'r mother is a person...just in case you didn't know.

You'r mother loves you, right? If not I feel sorry for you. But that love doesn't come from church, or the synogogue. It is natural. Your mother might feel cursed because she loves you, because she can't help it...and your decisions may drive her up the wall. But if you end up in prison for example, Your mom is probably going to be the only one that visits you. And your kids...why because they love you too. Will your minister visit? Maybe if you pay your tithes...but when the money runs out, so will the priest.

You can't improvise love. You can't improvise peace...or joy. Love comes from the heart, and there is proof that it exists. That proof is Love...the verb....There will be action when you love someone. Even if that action is inaction because it is motivated by love. If you try to love someone because you think that is what God wants you to do...good luck. As soon as you get sick of the person, you will bail.

I helped this guy out once. I would say that I loved him...I loved him as a friend. He was a user of heroin. He was my roommate for almost two years. We got to know each other, and we became good friends. Well, I came home one day, and he was sitting in the living room table with his head back, and his arms straight down. I started yelling at him, and saying his name. No movement...no breathing. I just stood trying to take it in:"he was dead." I couldn't believe it... Then, I saw movement. He started to make noise...OMG he was alive, thank God!

He had a re-laps. He took too much of the drug, and he almost died at the dinning room table. All was well! All was forgiven. But then the exact same thing happened a few months later. I wanted to slap him! But then he stopped...just a relapse, all was well.
Then it happened again and again...then the lies...then the dissrespect! Then, I had to cut him off...I was angry, and sad. But there was nothing that I could do. My love only went so far. I couldn't.

So, Back to mom. She loves me. And you know what that is not religion....that is love. Now, I know a person who loves me. He is a very special person. People know him, and talk about him...and many many things have been said about him...many lies, and many truths. This person you may have heard about. His name is a name that everyone...almost, has heard of. I am privaleged to know him. His name is Jesus.

Jesus is not relgion...at least to me. Jesus is not a picture on the wall. He is not on a cross around someones neck. He is not a baby as in "The Baby Jesus." He is all grown up...He became a man, and now He is The Only Begotton Son of God.
Doesn't make sense to you...well if I had time, boy could I tell you what He has told me...and others. This man-God is a person. And he loves me. How do I know...for one, He showed me.

But, I just want to tell you something about Him that I love....He lets me be me. He just loves me, and I love Him...simple.

I do read the Bible for faith because faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. I just listen to it on my phone, or computer....It gives me faith. It is just a history of how He has worked through history...testemonies...stories. I'm not gonna keep it(the laws and righteous commandments)...because I can't, and you know what....NO ONE CAN. Thats why Jesus died...for my sins, and yours. Try not to sin...see how far you get...not far

So, Jesus is a person just like my mother is a person. The difference is He is risen from the dead, and is glorified by God the Father...who is also a person. And I was given the Holy Spirit to know Him. And the Holy Spirit is also a person.

Don't try to figure God out...you'll make a fool out of yourself...ask Jesus to come into your life, and He will teach you about God. Funny...I'm no longer pissed off....I feel pretty damn good right now!

This is not a picture of "Religion." It is a picture of Gods beauty and creativity...and tenderness....It is a reflection of Him!