we're all sheep but some of us are black

I was raised in a non-practicing christian household. We only went to church on Easter and that's if we managed to wrangle the family to make it there on time. Mind you the sermons in our church are extremely lengthy and given in the oldest dialect of armenian that you would rather attend a class on how to watch water boil. Needless to say I always put up a fight when my mom made me go to church. Seriously, even when we had to go for the one year anniversary of my dad's death I was pissed. I didn't care to stand there for 2 hours so some guy can preach in a dialect i barley understood about some stories written by some men thousands of years ago. How was that relevant to my dad dying. He was an alcoholic that didn't take care of himself. His body was done, end of story. 

What kills me is that mom was not religious at all!! She once cursed out a priest during my little cousins christening, why you may ask? He told her that she wasn't allowed to light the candle favors we had made for the occasion. My mother wanted a reason and his reply was "because I said so!". Well the shit hit the fan then, my mom told him that he had no right to tell her what she could and could not do and that it was her money that built the church and appointed him to the post of preaching. I was secretly laughing on the inside with agreement. My mom was always telling it like it was no matter who the audience. She was a true Leo, strong, stubborn but a softy deep down.

About 6 months ago I attended a seminar with  Deepak Chopra. What a charlatan that guy is! Let me tell you if you have half a brain then you don't need to see Deepak (We had no idea he was going to be soooo terrible). I could have preached to you all the things he was saying. Be good to one another, Jesus is not the only prophet etc. My friend and I were incredulous at all the oohh's and ahhh's he was getting. Maybe they were oohhing and ahhhing at the glittery jacket and Kanye West glasses he had on cause it sure as hell wasn't because of what he was saying. Again we were proven right that religion or spirituality is an individual experience and all the big preachers that are raking in the dough are just catering to the lost sheep that don't bother to question anything. 

Anyway I can write a 20 page essay on the bullshit of religion but all of my friends that read this blog are the black sheep in the sea of white bbbaaaaaaalllshit.