Last night I wasn’t feeling well.  This was odd. It was a Saturday night and I don’t think my roommate, or any of my friends can recall a Saturday night where I didn’t go to Hollywood and visit one or more nightclubs.

The Santa Ana winds were stirring and for an unusually warm Southern California October, last night was chilly and cold.   Despite having tonsil and throat aches all my life, my health has been great ever since July 2006 when I removed by tonsils and have been relatively illness-free.

So it was strange that my throat was aching and that I didn’t feel the need, or even the ability to down multiple Red Bull  + Vodkas at Les Deux or Opera or Coco De Ville last night.  Instead, I stayed home with my roommate.  And when we got bored of hanging out together I listened very closely to the wind and the wind sounded a bit like the voice of a Jewish carpenter from a time and place so far away from Santa Monica, but yet so close to my heart and soul.

Yes, it was the voice of Jesus.  Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth if you prefer was speaking to me.  His voice was the wind and his message was to see the Bill Maher film “Religulous” that I had been anticipating all these weeks.  Jesus is omniscient as you very well know and he knew that I wanted to see that film and that last night was the best opportunity for me to see it.   Jesus made me sick, but not too sick to see a movie. Just sick enough so that I didn’t go out clubbing or drinking.

And since everyone knows that you don’t disobey Jesus, I got into my car and proceeded to see the film near my home…..

Now, the film “Religulous” which has been praised by the left-wing media as being a good film is sure to offend some people (mostly those who don’t see it) and sure to make others think (well, the people who see the film are most likely bright thinkers already…)  After all, Bill Maher is not ignorant of religion (he grew up Catholic and has a Jewsh mother), he has spent a lifetime considering religion(s) and has come to the conclusion that we as people know very little about what awaits in the after-life and what occurred factually thousands of years ago that he is struck by this doubt and has found his calling to preach that doubt onward.

Agnostics make up roughly 16% of all Americans, yet this group of people (that outnumbers Blacks and Jews combined) is so offensive to people that Agnostics keep their identity to themselves.  In fact, it occurred to me that the label “Agnostic” was so unappealing that it might be necessary to come up with something else to describe people who do not subscribe to any particular religion completely yet see the value in some of the religious tenets and values….  As far as I am concerned, the best name for these types of people is “Rationalists.”  It sounds a whole lot better and more than anything else pokes fun at the self-serving moralistic religious fundamentalists who drown out the voices of doubt and suspicion amongst the yelling of evangelical religiosity that this country professes.

So perhaps it was Jesus that called me last night to see this movie, or perhaps it was Krishna or Buddha or another action-figure from history and mythology.  Or perhaps it was good to see a film that made me think about why those of us who have rational thought are ridiculed by the other 84% of this country that thinks its a sin if we are not believers….

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