Thursday, October 04, 2001

Nothing as wacky as yesterday but I had a driving incident with a Jesus fish person. If you are easily offended walk away now but I’m not trying to get down on anybodies beliefs. This idiot was honking at me because I wouldn’t block an intersection when the light went yellow. Now a little background is required here because I am currently driving a 15-passenger van that we bought from a charity. This van is still lettered with the charity information on both doors and I was driving an Alzheimer’s patient at the time. Therefore, we have to wait the whole 4 minutes for the light to change to green and I know this moron is in a hurry so I take my time getting off the line. My copilot is a little out there so that is not a factor. When he can finally pass me, I get the bird and some mouthed swearing. Smiling to myself, I notice the Jesus fish on the back of his Lincoln and the accompanying “Do you know the Living Jesus?” bumper sticker. Next light we are side by side so I give him the roll your window down motion and let him know that yes I do know the living Jesus and I’m going to tell on him for the way he was acting. I actually saw his blood pressure going up but I couldn’t make out what he was yelling at me because I rolled my window back up. Were I alone and not in a company vehicle, I may have invited him to pull over for a debate but I had a lovely young woman to return home. I guess this person decorated the back of his car one day after a brush with death. Either that or he bought it that way and was too lazy to change it. This is my second run in with Jesus pretenders in as many days and it’s got me thinking. Maybe if you have to advertise your Jesusness a little inventory should be considered. A huge responsibility comes with public proclamations of religion. If you are into the advertising of your particular sect, please act responsibly. I am lucky because I have been blessed (couldn’t resist) with a small mind. I do believe in God but I think that he’s pretty much the same throughout the world. No matter what you call him or how you chose to divide him up I think were all basically talking about the same thing. The problems arise when mere mortals think too much. Here is my simple philosophy: Rules wreck religion. Just do the best you can. I have to keep it simple because I am stupid. The only other strong belief that I hold is there is no hell. Before you get your email warmed up were talking about stupidtom’s God. My God has a heaven and your behavior dictates your gig. I could type for hours on this but I just got a wave of LRON and it creeped me out. I’d better post this before I just delete the whole thing. 12:00:00 AM    says you