Animali

I love animals. I know we're animals, but I don't mean humans (though I love them too).

I love how animals mimic us, and we mimic them. I love how in the movie, The Endless Summer, they show "Henry" the seal surfing the waves like we do.

What came first? Surfing seals, or surfing humans? Who learned from whom? I would suspect that seals have been doing it longer than we have. Henry was a really good body surfer! ; )

There, or not

I've started reading a book, Blue Like Jazz, piece by little piece. It is by Donald Miller, who currently resides in Portland, I guess. He has already talked about Horse Brass Pub.

The book is supposedly "non-religious thoughts on Christian spirituality" and I am pretty sure it came from the NW Collegiate Ministry. They have set a table up in the hall at school in the past, though not this year. Sometimes they have this interesting hot chocolate. I also got a water bottle at the same time I got the book.

Back to the book. I have decided to try reading it, even though I don't know if I feel like a Christian at all. I was Catholic as a kid, and now I'm not sure of anything. I know Jesus was a real person, a historical figure, but I don't know if I even believe there is really a god out there. Just because people have been talking about it and worshiping for thousands of years, does not mean much to me.

We all know that people can be pretty stupid.

How many people have faith in George W. Bush? Though his popularity has definitely declined since his b.s. re-election, many people still support this dude. Many of those people are also Christians...

In a nutshell, that scares me. So I am also going to read, God Is Not Great - How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchins. I have barely looked at what this book is all about but it should be really interesting.

I am already biased, because I can feel myself going into it hoping that my atheist ideas will be reaffirmed. I am not exactly open to the possibility of a higher being right now, my mind is basically made up. I do not think about "God" during the day, other than to question the existence of a god when other people bring it up.

I probably won't be able to just decide one day, whether there is one or not. I think I will always question and debate it in my mind, and remain non-religious. In the meantime, I want to be educated about all the different religious sects and spiritual theories.