I drove to Ohio last night on my way to Lansing

I believe in God. Not the one you guys do. Mine listens to me. Mine doesn't get upset when I scream at him and call him names. There is no such thing as blasphemy he tells me. If faith is the key in believing in God then why must I have the same faith as you? Will I really go to hell and burn for all eternity? Right along with Bernie Madoff? Will I sit beside John Norman Collins and ask him why he killed so many women? What will we have in common? The fact that I didn't believe in your God? Will that be our commonality? If God is love then why would he create hell? He didn't tell Adam and Eve they would go to hell. He told them they would die. Maybe if he had been a little more specific to them, you know, the burning and all, maybe she wouldn't have taken that bite. According to Jehovah's Witnesses you don't go to hell. You just cease to be. There will be no resurrection for you. Just poof. Again, will I poof like a Timothy McVeigh? Maybe. Mormons have different levels that you attain. You don't go to hell but you won't be at the top of the heap either. You'll know you could have done better but you opted not to. So more sadness ensues. What about hell on earth? I read the newspaper. I know that there are people who are living in hell every day of their lives. My dad lives in a hellish situation. In constant pain every single day. He's going to hell even after living in it. That's what the bible says. You only get to heaven THROUGH me. "Jesus, can I come in?" Apparently not. Ahhhh.... so being a good person is all for naught. Especially IF you don't believe in the traditional King James God. I like my God. He accepts me and every last one of my faults. I'm a parent. My kids do all kinds of stupid stuff. Things that make you say, "if you love me why would you do that to me?" But you love them. I have never threatened them with taking away my love. You let them make their mistakes and come home. It's love and forgiveness. Who knows? Maybe when the end comes we'll never see each other again. That will be sad, won't it? Not for you. You'll be in heaven and in heaven there is no sadness, no death, no tears. Your entire memory of your life here on earth will cease to be. Along with that will go the memory of me.