Ever since it became clear that I was going to have to be single in the Portland-Vancouver metroplex I have started to become aware of single women. It's been mostly a distant, purely observational process. Just assessing the extreme bleakness of the matter.
And here's what I've seen: there are a fair amount of attractive, apparently single women out there. And they seem to fall into two categories:
- So hip, be-tatted, and involved in things as to be entirely uninterested in the divorced medical guy with 2 kids who has to look relatively conservative for his job.
- Smart, funny, interesting, but religious. Not the perfectly reasonable "I'm into spiritual growth, and sometimes I meditate, and I'm kind of Buddhist" or "I go to church for the community connection" or "I go to church/synagogue on the big holidays". I'm talking about "I am living for the glory of Jesus and I am very involved in my church and ministry and I am WAY socially conservative and I ♥ christian rock."
Seriously, what the hell? Why? Why are there so many smoking hot Jesus freaks? It's a total deal breaker for me, because I just don't believe the Jesus myth. I just can't go there. I've thought about it, I've listened, and decided that I'm a non-believer.
Look, this is not some John Fitzgerald Page thing. I don't think I'm somehow superior (oh my, no). I'm not, he says with Noel-Coward-like wit, holier-than-thou. I'm not some crazy sinner. I'm a decent person. The devil probably won't drag me under by the sharp lapel of my checkered coat. I just know that I am not compatible with the saved. I'm gonna be Left Behind, and so I need to be with people who also will be stuck on this earthly realm when God and Son get hella pissed and turn on the taps.
Grumble.
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