halo story

Did I ever tell you guys the halo story? Anyway, I was in church, this is when I was about 17, and the minister was there doing his sermon and all that and I'm sitting there thinking about God's love and how pure it was and everything and all of a sudden I got this warm feeling like, well, perhaps I better not say what it ws like, anyway I got this warm feeling and suddenly the light around the minister became a deeper yellow and brighter too at the same time and I knew I was having a vision sent from God. Later I got thinking about it and I realized "gee that was pretty nuts actually" and was probably the product of all the weird stuff they were teaching us in church and all the horrible stresses I had been under all my life actually.
Religion is a lot like that generally I figure. People are anxious about their futures and the inevitability of pain and death and the seemingly random meaninglessness of it all and so contort their otherwise sound intellects in all manner of ways to find a solution. It is a coping mechanism, and like most coping mechanisms basically nuts, but effective at least in warding off the larger anxieties, reality and such, until it is rationally challenged.