I suppose I get away believing in God because I don't see God the way Its interpreted here (for the most part). God is not some guy named Vinnie who wears a trenchcoat and has a bulge in his armpit. God doesn't give a rat's ass about the daily, weekly , yearly affairs of the human race. God is an ideal to be achieved, not a fait accompli who now exists to worry about my sorry ass. God is not about one-up-manship on a website.

Years ago in a testing I had to break some bricks: fist, elbow, foot. They were about 1 1/4" thick, 12" long and 8" wide and made of some kinda cement. I know many people here could do a few (maybe many) of them without cracking a sweat, but initially it seemed to me that there was a mental barrier to overcome. I mean, they were BRICKS. We build shit outta bricks: houses, driveways, even patios. The added impetus to succeed with the break is that if ya miss the break you will hurt yourself. So you can't miss. We all know about the house of straw, the house of wood, the house of brick and which one was left standing. Anyway, I called on something 'higher' than myself. (This was in the 1980s. If it had been the 1960s, there WAS nothing higher than myself.) That's the thing I call God. I believe God always ansers our prayers--and sometimes the answer is no.

Have a good day all. I am outta here.