But JB is one of the old grumpy gods...!

When my wife was going off to teach her night class last night, I asked her to text me if she was getting Raptured.

I personally don’t have a problem with people who identify as “religious.” The vast majority of all religious doctrine can be boiled down to “treat others the way you want to be treated” - but much as all other large organizations of people seem to become susceptible to the abuses of sociopathic, manipulative leaders, religion seems to be the same but with even less oversight or accountability somehow.

In spite of the abuses of those who manipulate power and people, I prefer to believe in the inherent compassionate nature of people. Rather than see people as the problem, I’d rather treat them the way I want to be treated - as someone who sees, or wants to see, the divine in everyone. 

Our engines burn the literal energy of creation itself; stars once contained the atoms within us, and when we die that energy will continue on in ways we don’t understand. If there is a God, or even just a creator, it’s literally us and everything around us, was us before we formed our first thought, and will continue to be us when our bodies are dust inside a dead rock. How can you be raptured to join something you were always a part of? I feel sad for people who allow themselves to be manipulated into believing and doing things that could be described as “self-harm.”