“All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
I've been thinking a lot about religion lately. My family didn't focus on religion when I was a kid.
My father was the product of a broken home. His mom took off with her husband's best friend when my dad was only 10 years old. He joined the navy at 17, a year or so before Pearl Harbor. WWII left him bitter and broken; he was ordered to open fire into a life-raft full of Japanese sailors, and he knew from experience what burning human flesh smells like ( pork roast ). Not surprisingly, he was also a devout atheist, and alcoholic. In the few years I knew him we had some spirited, Rainier Ale fueled philosophical discussions. I remember we used to talk about reincarnation, and he would draw pictures of Wampus Cats and Humbugs. He was a nice man ( until the third quart of ale ) and well liked by children and dogs, a pretty good artist, and he once wanted to be a Park Ranger. Instead he ended up a Boiler-Maker who helped weld the Titan Missile silos.
After my mother was arrested in 1969 for embezzling from the Reality company she worked for, he devoted himself to drinking and never worked again. He died in 1976 at the age of 54
My mother always used to say to me, "go outside and play". She was beyond disappointed that I wasn't a boy.
Enough of the past.
Lately my son's been telling me I need Jesus. I don't know if he's serious or not. He has a dry sense of humor. But I think I know what he means.
Our Nation is in DEEP SHIT. Turns out Joe McCarthy was right, the "Commies" ARE out to destroy us, and they are very patient. It's taken years to bring us to this state of vulnerability. Our People have been so degraded and divided that we are easy pickins. If We, The People, don't recover some sense of unity, and FAST, this entire nation, this experiment in self-governance, will be lost, and we will wake up to find ourselves living in the world's biggest gulag.
Which brings us to religion.
I am not a "believer", although I kind of wish I was. I envy the comfort people take from their religions, the sense of community it gives them, and how their faith helps them achieve impressive results like Cathedrals and The Holy Roman Empire. Not to mention "faith healing". Never underestimate the placebo effect, or what can happen when energy is focused properly. Religious beliefs aside, I think we can all agree that life exists. How or why I don't know, I don't believe anyone does, and it doesn't really matter anyway. If Einstein was right about energy and matter being eternally interchangeable, then life is pure energy, and as Tony Robbins says "energy flows where attention goes", which finally brings me to my point: People are energy and religion can be a lens used to focus that energy, just like a laser.
In a time when our culture and history is being openly attacked and destroyed daily, and the flag is set ablaze on the toppled statue of George Washington, we need something and we need it fast! You could do a lot worse than Jesus.