Where I left off…

I use to think that all people who attend church were religious. And to some extent, maybe most ARE.  However, I also know that there is a group of people who attend church, believe in God, and who have accepted Christ as their savior and are NOT religious ( religious as in puritanical and pious; basically all the negative connotations  associated with the word). 

Unfortunately, being a person who attends church, believes in God and who has accepted Christ, I find that I am lumped in with individuals who are religious (see above description).  Sometimes I am lumped in by my non-Christian friends (of whom I have many). 

Sometimes this bothers me.  Mainly because I know that this false impression of me and my family has created invisible barriers in particular relationships that I wish weren’t there, but are a direct residual affect of my faith. 

My faith hasn’t changed me so much that I don’t play video games, eat chocolate, sit on the couch instead of exercise, drink an occasional alcoholic beverage, and laugh at jokes about poop and farts. In fact, I made up a pretty darn good joke about a proctologist not too long ago.   

Religious I am not.  In fact, on a scale of 1-10 I am probably an 8 or a 9 on being irrevocably human. 

I am glad that I am an 8 or a 9 for being irrevocably human, because if I were any lower it would imply that I have angel, demon, or marmoset blood running through my veins.   

Personally, I would prefer to not be a marmoset, especially since I really don’t know what one is, nor what it looks like; only that I like typing the word, and it sounds funny when I say it out loud (and think it in my head). 

Being an angel would come with its own set of quirks and set backs, and being a demon would really just make things difficult for everyone around me; though I would probably enjoy myself immensely at the expense of them all. 

So clearly, because I am none of these things, I can’t be religious.  I think that the poop jokes are the deciding factor, but not being a marmoset helps.