Not very ‘Godly’

When my husband and I were studying at the University of Guelph, we invited my brother who was at Western and my sister in law to our place on a Saturday night because we wanted them to experience our favourite pub: The Albion hotel. But we ended up being disappointed because The Albion was full.

At the time, we didn’t know Guelph that well, but after driving around for a bit, we managed to find a really snazzy looking place all lit up and blasting with music just as we liked it! We had just found a table for four and settled into our chairs, lucky to be really close to the stage where it looked like the show was about to start.

A tall, beautiful woman came swirling in with a flourish of satin and lace flowing behind her. She was blessed with long dark gleaming hair, bright brown eyes and cheeks that glowed pink; bedecked in a low cut gown that was all the colours of the rainbow; her heels about four inches high!

She began to sing and we were overjoyed to hear that she had the voice of a pro. A baritone voice. We snuck looks at each other. We had never seen anyone in drag before.

Considering it was the then, pretty small town of Guelph, she gave a show that was classy, humorous, articulate, sexy and highly entertaining.

I would not say that I am a very religious person. I don’t really believe that you need to be a part of a man-made religion to believe in “a higher power.”

And I think conventional religion has a pretty bad record historically. Consider the residential schools; The Reformation; The Spanish Inquisition; The Salem Witch trials; Europe’s war of religion which put 4,000 “witches” to a terrible death; the Thirty Years War which killed one third of Germany’s population.

There may be a lot of people that use religion to further their own way of thinking and this can cause serious harm to innocent people. I think we would all agree that this is not a “Godly” way to behave.

Christy Doraty, Fergus