I have tried to sit in with some of
Janet’s bible study sessions but I find myself constantly being a man in doubt.
Now, I don’t want you guys to get the wrong impression. I’ve always considered
myself to be a spiritual person but I am not very religious. By that I mean
that I believe in God and I am not trying to get into a whole religious debate
here because that is not what this is. I’ve just never been much of a church
guy. Love God, not crazy about church. I guess it is things like that wacko
group of protestors that are outside soldier’s funerals and carrying signs that
say “God hates fags.” Those people are part of an actual church. Things like
that can sour you on the whole “organized” aspect of religion.
I’ve always felt that God and I were
cool; that we kind of understood each other. I mean I didn’t rage against him
when my mom was passing away from cancer. I never stood outside and screamed at
the night sky, “Why is this happening?!”
When things were going south with my
marriage, I begged him for help. I begged and pleaded for him to carry me
through a pretty freaking dark time in my life. And I made it through that
okay. In hindsight, I see that.
But when you see the whole world
degenerating down you and the corpses of the dead are attempting to feed on the
living, you naturally are going to have a little crisis of faith.
I seem to recall a message about how
when Jesus returned, it would be in the twinkling of an eye to claim all of his
loyal followers. Is that what happened here? Did the rapture occur and what
were left behind were the soulless bodies? I thought about that for a second
but if that is the case, why is Janet still here?
She can pull bible verses that she has
memorized out for almost every occasion. It is kind of like me and how I can
correlate any real life scenario with an episode of The Simpsons. (I am not proud of that fact.) But she is the most
religious of any person I have ever met. She is the one that suggested we even
have a bible study group.
“We need it now more than ever,” she
said. I guess with society having collapsed all around us, she still wants us
to hold on to our humanity and she feels that now more than ever we need the
lessons that the Bible provides.
I have to tell you though. If ever
there was a reason to have a crisis of faith, I think that this pretty much
qualifies. When the living dead are roaming around trying to feast on the flesh
of the living, all the rules about coveting thy neighbor’s ox or not eating
shellfish no longer seems very relevant.
I mean, you get to a point where you
look around in this world. If your supplies are running low, no gas, no power,
all your friends are dead and you have a whole host of zoms banging at your
front door…
Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Sideshow Bob made
them take television off the air? Krusty the Clown tells the Springfield
government: “Would it really be worth living in a world without television? I
think the survivors would envy the dead.”
Eventually, I think you get to that
point. Where the survivors do envy the dead. Like I said, The Simpsons trivia is my gift, my curse…
