My Parents Religion

My parents religion was both the best and the worst thing that happened to me in my life.

Many of you might be able to say the same thing.

It was good in that it brought a kind of structure to my life and it was good that it helped me in my connection to God. It made it sure that my parents would not smoke cigarettes or anything else and it made sure that my parents never would drink alcohol

These were the good things.

The things that likely would be neutral in some ways is that I was raised a lacto Ovo Vegetarian. On the one hand this was helpful in many health ways but also if you don't eat any meat often you feel kind of spaced out and ungrounded. And also, I found out as an adult that if you have Type O "caveman blood" that not eating meat isn't very good for type O blood. It is the blood type that doesn't do very well just being a vegetarian. Other blood types fare much better being vegetarian than Type O.

So, basically I was a vegetarian (a lacto ovo vegetarian until I was 32 years of age and believed that it might be good to be able to hunt then (around 1980) if the U.S. government collapsed economically because of the Viet Nam War Bankrupting the U.S. then.

However, the U.S. had made many friends around the world propping up free world countries after World War II because we were the ONLY major economy left on earth then still completely functional because war had never come to our mainland like it had everywhere else just about. So, they lent us money in the 1980s so the U.S. economy just didn't completely collapse from the waste of the Viet Nam War.

The Bad things about being raised in my parents religion were that I was more of a scientist and people in this religion were more "Creationists" so this didn't work for me.

As I watched many many people die because they wouldn't go to doctors, I thought to myself, "Why are all these people I love not going to doctors instead of dying?"

So, even though this religion wasn't Christian Science it was a lot like that where you watch people die a lot because they just aren't being practical and realistic enough. I'm not singling out Christian Science by the way, there are many many religions where people's faith in their minds is beyond what the reality of life and death is around the world.

Then I fell and hit my head on a rock in a forest and got Blunt Trauma childhood epilepsy and then I needed religion to stay alive when I started to have night time seizures.

Now, I suppose one might say that "The Lord Moves in mysterious ways" which I also agree with in that this "Blow to the Head" brought me to God for life because I invoked (invited) God to live in my body with me which he did and still is living in my body now.

But, many of you reading this might not understand this and just how powerful and all encompassing an experience this actually can be to where you feel like one of the prophets from the Bible or something because it is that important in your life and you walk around the Earth fearless because of the power of God flowing through you into your life and the lives of all around you.

So, was my parents religion good or bad in my life?

I don't think this is a useful way to look at it.

I think anything that brings God into your life through a near death experience is likely a good thing.

But, the trauma of all that is a lot to deal with.

So, even though my parents religion and I parted ways when I was 21 in 1969, God has remained in my body and in my life changing not only my own life but the lives of everyone around me all the time ever since.

By God's Grace

Note: I guess I'm witnessing my experience with God here.