Posted by Weasel Dog
on 9/8/2009, 7:47 pm
70.162.173.109
Weasels go to Heaven
Hello all from the Weasel Dog.
I saw a religion expert on TV discussing why I, and all my animal friends won't go to heaven. The expert gave all kinds of reasons. He quoted learned scholars. Animals aren't smart enough. They don't love, or worship on the sabbath. (Animals don't even have a sabath.) They have sex when they aren't married. They are NOT members of the proper faith.
He went on and on. I felt terrible.
I had always tried to be good. I only left a puddle on the floor when I was left alone for a long time and I just couldn't hold it in. I obeyed my humans. I kept all the wild animals out of the back yard. I never bit anyone. I was even nice to other dogs and cats that came to visit.
Was being good a waste of time?
I felt mad about what the person said. I wanted to do something bad. If there is no heaven as a reward, I might as well poop on the carpet and bark all night to keep my humans awake.
TK, my human, came into the room and saw the person on TV and saw how sad I looked. I think he got a little sad too. He tried to cheer me up by taking me for a walk. I liked the walk, but I still felt real bad. I growled at everyone I saw. I tried to nip TK's had when he took my leash off.
TK sat me down and gave me a good "talking to".
"Weasel Dog," he said "I don't honestly know if there is a heaven. I do know this, if heaven is a place where people are happy, you will be there because me and your family could not be happy if you weren't there."
That made me feel a little better. I could get into heaven if TK or someone in his family needed me in heaven. But then I thought that if I died too soon, people might forget all about me before they went to heaven.
"Oh woe is the poor pooch who has no one who wants him in heaven."
I still felt upset. It wasn't fair. What about the poor wild animals and the bugs? How could a roach or a rat ever get into heaven? Humans are always trying to get rid of them.
Did God create beings and that He didn't love enough to let get into heaven?
I felt down for quite awhile.
One night Sunday, I couldn't sleep so I went into the family room to sulk. Someone had left the TV on. I couldn't reach the controller, so I had to watch the channel that was on. Between the news and the TV preachers I started to wonder if even humans could get to heaven.
Each preacher made it sound like you could only get to heaven if you belonged to the right religion and you followed their rules.
The news had reports about people hurting and killing other people and thinking they were making God happy. God made everyone, but one group said they were God's people and only they had the right to the holy land. It was alright with God if they took the land away from others.
Since there were so many different set of rules, beliefs and formulas to get to heaven I thought that no one but God can really know the right way. Maybe, there are lots of right ways. I think that God made us all different and knows that we each have a different best way to love and know him.
I started to feel better after I watched all the things the humans did and said. I was actually I was glad I was only a dog. Since there were no rules I could follow to make God send me to heaven, I could forget about the rules and and rewards and just try my best. If I die and there is no heaven, I'll never know I missed out on heaven. I can only HOPE that someone loves me enough to want me to be in heaven with them.
I think some of my human friends would feel better if they stopped worrying about rules and religions and just hoped God loved them and wants the to be in heaven with him.
A hopeful wag of the tail from old WTD.
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