Chris's Weird Religious Dream

Morning World. 

It's 6am, about 30 minutes before the sun comes out, not a single bird a chirpin' in the sky and I'm wide awake. 

I think that dreams are sometimes in insight to your soul, maybe even a pathway to the other side, and definitely hold some aspect of truth. 

Obviously I'm not too much of a religious man but to me that doesn't do two very important things: 

1) this doesn't make me not believe in God, the right path, or treating people well. 

2) this also doesn't make me a bad person. 

This leads me to my most recent dream: 

Me and a bunch of grown ups were playing softball on my old baseball field by my high school. It wasn't clear within the dream why this was a bad thing to do - just for the sake of the dream it was. 

So out of the blue the clouds get incredibly grey, lightening, rain, everything starts to happen and all of a sudden there is a priest and some policemen in front of me. 

Beside me is the other guy I was playing softball with. 

As I'm trying to figure out what the hell is going on and why a priest would object to what appears to be a picnic I realize that I am dreaming. 

Each person is arguing- the priest telling the police that we can't just do whatever we want to do, my friends telling the police that we haven't done anything wrong...a really big cluster fuck (not to mention this torrential rain is really making a shitty day for a picnic). 

As I now am having a period of lucidity in my dream (when you do this you can fly, wake yourself up, really you have full reign over your dreams- you're almost godlike) I take a few steps back, look up to the sky and say:

"You can stop it now, I understand and I'm sorry. This won't happen again." 

The rain suddenly let up, the sun came through a little, the people stopped arguing, and as the clouds started to part there was a John III XVI written in them. 

I woke up to find my girlfriend getting ready for her morning run and I asked her what john 3:16 meant- she said that it was god loving the world so much that he gave his only son. 

I repeat, I am not religious, I have no real understanding for this dream, and to be perfectly honest I don't really believe in Jesusy things. Take this dream for what you want it to be, as I said before- I think dreams are a window or pathway to the other side. 

God, don't get me wrong, you and I both know I could use a lesson every now and then and I appreciate it. You also know that my perception on religion has been changed by the very people that push religion. 

How is it possible for the killings, the molestations, and the outright abuse of power within every christian church for there to be a definitive spec of truth about the bible, jesus, and their view of heaven?

I promise I will no longer say horrible things about Jesus. Here are things I still think are true about him: 

Jesus wasn't the white guy in the paintings. I really do think jesus is black, not Bill Cosby black, but I live in the south, so anything not white....well, is black. 

I think Jesus had a bit of a god complex...haha. Kidding, but seriously, everybody (even you probably) hates a kid that can fall back on his dad's business- nepotism is a motherfucker. 

Jesus, I want to apologize for that last poll I did where I said you didn't exist. Maybe the historical take on you is different from the real version, maybe my belief in you and your dad has been skewed a little bit due to all of the religious assholes and fucking Aston Kutcher and those "Jesus is my homeboy" t-shirts...tell me the truth- is he the anti-christ?

I just can't stand religious nuts. People that live and die by the church, praising every second, and then never really opening their eyes to see the true glory of this life. I hate the anti-abortion people who carry signs of aborted fetus' around to show the world that killing a fetus is wrong, but they don't give a fuck that a 3 year old kid is subject to seeing those signs. 

I hate so many things dealing with what I thought was religion. I think I was wrong there. I think that I hate people's perception of religion. 

I still am not going to go to church but I do believe in you again Jesus. If you could please steer away Ashton Kutcher for a while and allow me to get used to this, I would appreciate it. 

Thanks, 

Chris