People Are Weird

Yeah, yeah, it's probably not news to . . . well, anyone.

So I'm talking to my Gramma and my twin sister, Kate . . . five minutes ago at most, actually. So we're talking, chatting about things with various relatives up here, when baptism comes up. Which leads to talking about my Aunt Tammy, loudly not a Christian, and disliking any organised religion, who is married to my very Catholic Uncle Ron.

So of course Gramma lets us in on 'just why' Aunt Tammy's not Christian, when she was very devout growing up. Aside from my Born-Again Aunt Kathy telling her she was living in sin with my Uncle, that she should leave because, as a Catholic, he wasn' a true Christian, blah, blah, etcetera.

As it turns out, Gramma's of the opinion that she is angry at God, because he chose to take away one of her best friends. He died a few years ago, of cancer, and Aunt Tammy, Gramma says, is just mad at God, for 'choosing' to take him away.

The heck? That's one thing I have never, ever understood, even when I was nine years old and would sit outside at the park talking to God and looking up in the sky. First off, death, dying, living, sickness, health - it's completely natural. I don't - I can't understand how anyone can thing that there's this great, all-knowing being, person, whatever, judging them from the sky and deciding just when everyone would live or die. It doesn't make sense to me.

For me, death is just a continuation of live. You're born, you live, you die, and you are reborn again, learning life's lessons along the way. Maybe you take a break between journeys, maybe not. I don't know. So the idea that someone, anyone, can just decide when you truly end and then nothing after that until some great reconing . . . makes no sense to me. I don't understand. It's like the original sin concept - why is evryone, everywhere, accountable for two people's misdeeds? Sort of silly, isn't it?

I'm shaking my head at myself right now. I honestly didn't intend this to be the main point of my blog post - I was going to go into the neighbour's cat Mischeif trying to swim in the hot tub, and my cousin Lucas being bsessed with McDonald's chicken nuggets, but I've got a Biology test to take in Virtual School, so . . .

Wish me luck! (I need it.)

 - Janie L.