Welcome guys and gals, the man talk show. I'm Connor Beaton. And on this week's midweek mini episode,

we're going to have some contemplative thoughts and talk about the hilarious irony of what would

Jesus do. This came up in a conversation with one of my clients the other day and we were talking about

how he was raised religious and how he used to go to church every Sunday and his mom would

take him there and he wasn't really too sure why he needed to be there what really the point

of it was but it seemed pretty important to his parents.

And so he went along with it.

And he would go to church with his mom and his dad, and they would go as a family, his little brother would go with them.

You know, they would learn some lessons, sing some songs, hear some stories, you know, some stories based on morality and, you know, how to

maybe act in life. And then they would go home. And in the, on the drive home, he every single

time would see his parents argue and he would see his father become angry and contemptuous

and disrespectful to his mother.

And he thought, well, isn't religion then just a joke, right?

Isn't aren't the stories of things like Christianity and the Bible or Buddhism and the

Tao Te Ching?

Aren't these things just then not serious stories? They mustn't be something that we should listen to. Maybe they're just fake. Maybe they're

all lies because my parents don't seem to live them. They don't seem to live the teachings that

we were just taught. it's like going to class

and learning mathematical equations and then going out of class and literally doing them wrong

even though you know the answer even though you know that when one plus one equals two

you go out into the world and you say that one plus one equals

11 or 19 or X and you make and you make things up and you don't do it the way that you've been

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