The difference between Christianity and Judiasm

My girlfriend has a couple who is her best friend.  They’s good people, with two great kids.  They’re going skiing with us next weekend up in the Sierra Nevadas.  The kids are coming as a matter of circumstance, not by choice.  Neither of their parents can watch them because the dad’s parents are taking care of his grandfather who just entered hospice.  The mother’s parents can’t take them because her mother’s sister just died.  She had some disorder where the body produces too much blood.  She bled out of all of her orifices because her stomach ruptured due to the excessive blood production.  That’s a horrible fucking way to die.

My girlfriend’s friend is getting her Master’s.  There’s some screwup with her enrollment, and last week, she wasn’t able to attend class.  The friend calls this a blessing, because she was able to go to her mother’s house for her birthday instead of class.  This is when her mother found out that her sister was being taken to the hospital.  We live in Bakersfield, CA.  The mother and the aunt live in Tehachapi, which is 45 minutes east.  The hospital they were taking her to is in Bakersfield.  It’s a blessing because this woman was able to drive 45 minutes east, just to turn around and drive back to go to the hospital.  It’s a blessing that she was able to run laps.

Here’s where the difference hits.  If you’re familiar with the Old Testament, it’s a rough book.  The Jewish outlook on life seem to be, “It’s all shit, but when you die it gets better.  But make no mistake about it, it’s all shit.  And God is a prick.”  The Christian outlook is, “It’s shit, but when you die, provided you adhere to these rules, it gets better.  But make no mistake about it, it’s all shit.  And God loves us, so any modicum of happiness you’re able to get out of this is thanks to Him.”  Anything good, He gets the credit.  Anything bad, well that’s how it goes.  Judiasm is “My parents got shot right in front of me, and now I’m alone.”  Christianity is “My parents got shot right in front of me, but I was given this candy bar, so I got that going for me.”

This is one of the main reasons I don’t believe in God.