Another Perfect Stranger Page #3

clouds somewhere just doesn't seem real.

Let me guess, this hasn't gone

too well with mom and dad.

Hmm. You should have seen

the looks on their faces.

Then they got into this whole big thing...

Finally I got mad, and they got

all dramatic about it, turned into a huge fight...

You really hit them where they lived, ha?

Yeah. They always encouraged me to think

from myself, have a reason to believe things...

Except when it comes to God.

I guess...

But that's not the worst part...

It gets worse?

I can't believe I'm telling somebody this.

This is gonna sound really stupid,

make that beyond stupid... times 1000 ...

Hah! That's must be pretty bad.

It is.

After the three of us argued all night,

I went to bed, and then when I was almost asleep,

mom comes into the room, and closes the door,

then she sits on my bad, and she tells me,

that she used to feel the same way I did.

Like she wasn't so sure that God existed

until... until...

Until... what?

Until the night 10 years ago, when she actually

sat down to dinner with Jesus...

...at a tiny restaurant in Chicago.

Hmm, that something, we don't hear every day...

Then she went on saying, how that experience changed

her life, and it helped change dad's life, too...

And suddenly my nice, wonderful mom goes to church

seemed more like this:

psycho-religious fanatic,

seeing the pope's face in pancake better.

And that just added to the tension...

Well, between that little doozie being out of

the bag and me trying to find a school,

everything's just got all juiced up.

Like how?

Like all she wanna talk about is Jesus,

and how it was important to her and dad, that I was firm

in my faith before went out to the world, and stuff...

Oh, boy...

In less then 12 hours

my perfect relationship with my folks

got messed up because of

this stupid religion stuff.

Religion always messes everything up.

I hate religion.

So why do you hate religion?

Why, don't you?

Well, I'm not saying, people don't have the right

to believe in what they want,

I'm just saying, it's not for me.

But you were the one who actually said,

you didn't like it...

Religion keeps people from living

the life to the fullest.

And makes some people to feel guilty over things

they shouldn't feel guilty about...

and other people worry about things,

they shouldn't worry about.

I know! Religious people are so uptight!

It's been so much time and

energy trying to please a higher power

and it's all wasted effort.

I think, they are focused on

feeding the Poor or something.

Lot of times they do.

But the problem is when they think,

they get points for doing good deeds.

or for what they wear,

or they eat, or they chant.

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