Well, not to get preachy or anything, but I used to feel just as you do! Yet when my M went down the tube and at the same time my Dad came down with cancer, I had some hard thinking to do about life. Just like that I was about to lose two of the most important parts of my life. I realized that everything here today is just that here today, tomorrow it can all be taken away from us from an accident, a betrayal, an illness etc. I needed more than my intellectual arrogance to get me through life. I decided to actually check out church again, to put aside my little scorecard on Jesus and his followers and actually experience some spirituality. What I found was a place that talked about love and forgiveness, it wasn't the den of homo-haters and two faced hypocrites I thought I'd find. I used to believe that I nor anyone else needed some book written thousands of years ago to tell us what is right or wrong, we're beyond that. Uh uh, I've seen the damage that people do to each other and then twist it into somehow the "right thing" and now recognize we're just as naive and self serving as ever. The struggles people in the bible have are the same ones we struggle with today. And really look at them, Jesus was Lord of the Losers...that's my kind of crowd. So, if all I have to do is love my brother and try to lead a life that respects God and his goodness, then that's a jackpot to me...but that's my view, take it for what it's worth. How many Air Miles to Heaven did I just earn?
