I would like to echo the whole post.

Truth comes from Texas once again!

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"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution." March 4, 1869, Grant's First Inaugural Address

My religion involves sleeping in on Sundays. Being kind to homeless people, gang members, veterans, and children (not to mention stray animals). Doing good, without taking credit. Religious rituals include eating good food (preferably, family style), shoe shopping, and drinking good red wine, along with playing catch with my kids in the front yard.

Services fluctuate based upon season, but generally occur around 2 a.m. under the stars, alone and skyclad.

As far as giving up on Jesus...

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I gave myself to Jesus, but now he never calls.

I forgot I once wrote out a statement of belief, in case anyone wants to convert to the Divine Church of Catz Cosmic:

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I gave myself to Jesus, but now he never calls.

Please don’t mistake “religion” for Christianity. (In fact, as religions go, yours is better than theirs.)

Here speaks of the difference between religion and Christianity. Read it carefully and see what I mean.

You’re doing just fine.


1 Corinthians 13

1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.