The "Crazy" Side of Religion

 Wow... there's so much "crazy" going on in the world and in my head right now!  I was recently talking with a friend about the importance of faith.  She said "religious people get so crazy".  For one thing, I don't think of myself as "religious" in the common dogmatic sense.  I consider myself to be a truth seeker.  I get really claustrophobic with containers and limits.  Labels kill the possibility of higher understanding. God is complex, and while he does demand certain standards, he is vastly misunderstood.  That being said, looking through a narrow skope you could loosely peg me as "religious" and for the sake of energy saving not trying to explain my position, I will comply with that definition.  I can't deny that this path can, at times, make us a bit crazy.  It really does something to ones head when we become aware of the bigger picture.  Everyday the picture grows and we become accountable to God for living in His truth.  Why does this make us crazy?  Because it's hard to know His absolute truth, especially in these deceptive days (which have been compiling steadily and subtly for decades)  I've exposed myself to SO many ideas, prophesies, and perspectives.  People are having various dreams and open visions, religious scholars have their views and ideas, certain people are claiming to speak to Jesus, certain people are having visitations and out of body experiences where they claim to visit heaven or hell.  Messianic Jewish pastors are revealing mysteries of the Torah, and ancient information that seems absolutely critical.  The majority of people feel like we're living in the end times, while others are claiming authority to say we have hundreds of years left (Kat Kerr, ahem).  It's really cool, and really confusing at the same time.  How I feel about it doesn't matter.  My concern is, what is true?  My feeling is that we're in the end times.  I can't imagine this world in a hundred years!  It would be absolutely dreadful.  I am over this world as it is today.  Wars, sickness, human trafficking is huge, horrendous animal abuse, animal die offs, sink holes, earthquake activity has increased tremendously in the last hundred years, the devitalization of food, the pollution and mass chemicalizatiin of the air, water and land.  Climate change is undeniable, the humungous increase in sickness and disease. People are getting massacred for their faith. Violence is out of control, people can't get along or agree about anything.  Monsanto is taking over the entire food system.  I can hardly eat anything anymore!  Also, two of the biggest indicators are that Isreal is surrounded by her enemies, technology for the Mark of the Beast (microchip) is out and they're getting ready to mandate it.  Talks of "peace and security" are all over the political system.  Go read Revelation again guys...
  Personally, I have to believe Jesus is coming soon!  That is the ONLY good news going.  I'm just not interested in this world anymore.  Maybe I never was.  People still seem to be getting their kicks, but I'm like... really?  Huh...  I love people, but not like this.  Not in this reality.  We can't exist in a state of ignorance and just live our lives like nothing is happening.  Stuff is happening at an alarming rate!  The ONLY question that remains is, how much worse does it have to get??

  

Ps.  I am not even touching the "crazy" fact that people have been killing each other for "religious" reason for thousands of years. I am not responsible for the fact that early Christians didn't read their Bibles and actually believe what Jesus said.  It is clear.  Live by the sword die by the sword.  It is NOT mistakable.  So, that being said, who was responsible for Satans entrance into the Catholic church around the time of Constantine?  I don't know.  Crazy stuff happened and it was the fault of man, not God.