It’s Sunday, time for Religion’s talk …

Not many of you know how long and hard it was for me to find what I consider ‘Faith’ at this point.
I was raised Mormon … be nice … and grew out of that kind of quickly, sorry family peeps but not going to lie or hide it.
It just wasn’t my thing.
Mind you some of the best people I have ever meet are/were Mormon.
They are some of the most giving and caring people I know … that being said, not my thing.

My big problem with Christianity was/is Hypocrites!
O, Monday I got drunk and slept with some guy … Tuesday I got Tina fired so I could put in for her job, Wednesday the guy from Monday called and I lied and said I was busy, Thursday, Friday and Saturday I don’t remember … Sunday I have a Hangover and a rash but I am in church so all is good and I will tell everyone not to get drunk or sleep around and blah blah blah BS!

My other problem with it is the I found faith and the Bible says a lot of things read it and I can the argue a point with you stop saying what the preacher says and being a sheep … Ok we are supposed to be sheep but Read the Book you swear by and live by.
Not what the Preacher has to say and points out thinking it is what you need to hear!
Multiple people can preach multiple ways, read it and find what you need to find and learn from the heart and soul.
The Preacher is there to guide you, take a few mins a day and read the darn Bible yourself!
IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE!!!

Back to my other issue … I wondered around a while and looked into the old religions and saw the Druidic ways.
Now, that was all about nature and animals and just being kind and sounded good at the time then it got to mainstream and WAY to much like the Wicken’s.
Sorry spells and potions just not to big in my way to find inner peace … why should I have to know how to curse someone to be a better person?

I then moved over to Buddhism, come on now doesn’t it fit?
I am an easygoing guy who sits around in poverty and ‘Meditates’ in front of the TV and or Computer all day!
I was happy as a Buddhist, I really was.
Something was missing though and I didn’t know what it was.
Possibly a Buddha statue in the house or I was always in need of the newest coolest thing?

So then I meet the wife, who had faith.
This blinding unobstructed happy glow that makes you want to hit that person because you are jealous you don’t have it but will never admit it or even know you want it.
I felt so pathetic because she never had to search, look or read and read and read to try and find her place in her faith.
She just had it.
Why couldn’t I have such an easy time of it?
What did I ever get?
I got a dog … yea a silly, stinky stray homeless mutt.

So people say that things happen for a reason and that there is a greater good and/or plan out there and that we need to have faith toward.
Some say that if you are lost and find yourself in a cave and then the fuzzy blanket you found starts to growl to find religion quickly because you are almost out the door … Ok not normally said but good advise!

Well, with my stinky hound at my side, I found myself walking her at night and talking aloud to myself, a memory-strengthening thing, and kept talking around in circles until sometimes I got answers.
I noticed this enough to the point were I would go out with a question just to talk myself around into an answer.
Well I started to grow in the questions I finally asked myself were to go with my life.
The only thing that kept running through my head was ‘Look again, an answer might show itself’.
I am still not sure were it came from, well I do know were it came from but not how it got out of storage from were ever I put it, but one day I was sitting in the bathroom with nothing much going on … literally … and looking for something to read.
Low and behold the New Testament was the only thing sitting in there with me.

I am not going to go into the whole big deep everyone should find faith and find the same faith stuff I hear all the time.

The truth is, in my eyes and as before mentioned this is my Blog Universe (Hum how does Bloguverse sound) … so what I have to say is all that matters … most of the time … we have a lot of religions out their.
A LOT of them!

If we take a step back and look at them all though, don’t most all of them say the same thing?
Peace, love, kindness, love bunnies but don’t LOVE bunnies … don’t look at other Bunnies … even famous people who pose as Bunnies …

Most people don’t even know that the Bible and the Koran basically start off the same.
Chapters of each can be found in the other through out the Middle East and Asia.

The other thing is we have a book that has been translated how many times?
Haven’t we all played the ‘Telephone’ game?
I tell Billy ‘The moon landing was fake’ and it goes 3 people and is now ‘My mom likes to bake’ then 5 more people and then 5 more after that until it gets back to me and says ‘On Thursday Luke was busted by Howard Stern when he was looking up Nascar on his cell phone’ … WHAT?

We also know, ok have strong feelings toward, that the stories were spread by mouth for years before they were written down and then not by the original people.
That isn’t even getting into how a certain King decided to change and dumb down the bible for the people. (What’s that last part in Revelation – And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things, which are written in this book … And yet they did …
Have we also forgotten that Jesus came back to strengthen the Jewish faith back to what it once was because it had fallen away from it’s own roots.
He never preached a new religion, just to fix the existing one!
Then we had all the other Christians over the years who got together and decided to move the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday because it was to Jewish, along with a lot of other things … like what books to put in and take out of the bible and what End Days book was best fitting … there were multiple ‘Revelations’ and this is the one that they picked because they though it would strike the most fear into the hearts of the members … I am about to rant and rave and that’s not what this is all about … this time …

Back to the point, we each have to find the faith out there that is right for us.
It might not agree with mine, or yours but everyone has a path and a reason don't they?
If there were not so many religions we would not be challenged to find the right one.
God, or the God's, can't make it easy for us, that’s not fun!
They need to test us and see if we can handle it.
I wonder if they have Tevo for watching us … hum … Deja Vu = replay?
Life is supposed to be a learning experience ... we need to know that looking at bunnies is nice and fun but in the long run is it the answer ... depends on the question I guess ... or the bunny …
We sit back and ask, ‘Why did that happen?’
How do we know that that isn’t the lesser of two evils?
A child is raped and killed and left in the forest … I can’t think of much worse but we don’t know what other future could have been out there for that child.
She could have lived, grown up and gotten on drugs and sold her own children to men for her next hit and the process ongoing.
We also don’t know that if that didn’t happen and the person who did it gets caught what would have happened if he happened to the next children?

Part of me thinks that we have an ideal of the life we will be given before we pop down here for our visit and that some of us might choose these lives so that others don’t have to live them.
My life is good, real good actually but I don’t want someone else to have to go through the things I have had to.
They might not be able to handle them and turn out some other way.
Mind you I am not saying that I am strong in the mind but I know a few who are weaker.

That is how I look at things, because otherwise I think I might go crazy trying to figure out the answers that I know my mind can not comprehend!

That being said …
Who are we to judge who or what is right?
Without Evil in the world how would we know what good is or appreciate the possative?

As long as the person next to you has some kind of faith and is a good person isn’t that all that matters?
If they are meant to change something will guide them to that change.
I wasn’t ready until I was ready and I might still need a good shove in another direction who knows?
But, don’t try and force a good person into something that might not be right for them or just not the right time for them.
In the long run I see people push the good away trying to save them.
Would you rather have a good person as a friend who can come to you when something clicks in their head or no one standing next to you when you need the help?
I know, most of you guys would like to have a Bunny standing next to you at anytime but that’s not the answer now is it?

Bad and Evil things are going to happen.
Without then we cannot know what good is, or how to appreciate the positive things.
We can questions the events and the people but in the end, it is to big for us to understand.
Everything happens for a reason, it might not show now, or even our life times but it all happens for a reason.
Smile and trudge on and in the end it might make since.
God I hate saying this but Garth Brooks wrote a song called Unanswered Prayers … listen to it and you might get a glimpse into my thought process.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGnuMBA_wV8

This is just a little rant … because nothing is going on in my life right now because we are still packing.