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elieve we are God. That is never a good thing for a chicken or a person.</p><p id="238f">So perhaps it is best to simply let x = x.</p><p id="0a7e">And let God be God.</p><h2 id="acad">What chickens believe about life</h2><p id="023b">Chickens believe that everything with life is created to give. Giving is the key to life. Cows give milk. Chickens give eggs. Trees give shade. Even deadly things like poisonous berries give something: food for earthworms.</p><p id="b8d5">Chickens believe they were given life in order to give what only they can give. But it’s more than giving eggs and sometimes feathers for soft pillows to people. They also give protection and comfort to each other even to those who didn’t hatch quite right or have stopped laying eggs.</p><p id="e4fe">Did you know that chickens also give songs to the world? Mine began singing each other to sleep in the evening when they were in their young teenage weeks. <i>(Exerting musical independence may be part of just being a teenager whether you are a chicken or a person.)</i> They will still occasionally sing a bit for me just before bedtime.</p><h2 id="e1b0">What chickens believe about good and evil</h2><p id="10a3">Chickens are not set on getting stuff the way people are. This is because they have nowhere to store their stuff. Chickens don’t see giving as an act to be rewarded or taking as an act to be punished.</p><p id="20f4">Taking is something that chickens can do when hunting for worms as you learned previously in Economics 101. But they consider this type of taking “fair” in most circumstances.</p><p id="cc36">There is a type of taking which chickens are completely opposed to: systematic, organized, destructive taking. People appear to be the only living beings that have ever mastered this form of taking.</p><p id="5a3b">Pollution takes valuable resources. Slavery takes precious freedom. War takes irreplaceable lives. These are the creations of people alone. There is no giving in any of these things.</p><p id="b481">No living thing was ever created to give pollution

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, slavery, or war.</p><h2 id="12d9">What chickens believe about death</h2><p id="1fbe">Chickens do not see death as a curse. Whether it is from sickness, old age, or something far worse like the hatchet, they see death as their final act of giving. They will return to the earth from which they were made, leaving behind gifts that will live on in some way.</p><p id="70ad">When they are still in their eggshells, baby chicks come to know there is something outside that is softly speaking to them about a wonderful world waiting for them. Then they eventually break free of their eggshells to explore all there is to explore.</p><p id="bddc">As they grow in that outside world, chickens know there is another world even beyond the one they can see. It speaks softly to them as well. Then they eventually leave their bodies to again explore all there is to explore.</p><h2 id="2af0">And as for everything in between life and death?</h2><p id="3cfa">Well, that is more than can be covered in “You Can Learn a Lot from a Chicken: Religion 101.” But we will share more with you soon.</p><p id="2ba5"><b>This article is part of a series. You can view the full list of available articles here.</b></p><div id="f4da" class="link-block"> <a href="https://medium.com/@JRSpiers/list/5488af7e3870"> <div> <div> <h2>You Can Learn a Lot From a Chicken</h2> <div><h3>A Collection of Articles with Titles Set Up Like a College Catalogue</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*bc233114fb342189e9caf15177f76bccae7bff84.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="cdfc"><b>Will I be able to keep my promise to have the word “chicken” at least once in every Medium story? <a href="/@JRSpiers/membership"><i>Find out by subscribing to Medium today as a reader or writer — or both!</i></a></b></p></article></body>

RELIGION | SPIRITUALITY | GOD | LIFE | PHILOSOPHY

You Can Learn a Lot From a Chicken: Religion 101

The truth about life, death, and everything in between as chickens see it

“Gracie Demonstrating How ‘From Way Up There’ Is Not How God Sees Us” Photo by the Author

I once thought of religion as being mostly about getting into heaven one day while in the meantime getting the good “stuff” you want while still on earth.

But there is a whole lot more to it than that. I don’t understand why bad things happen to good people or why good things happen to bad people. But I do understand chickens.

Chicken Religion 101

Religion for people seems to be all about believing right and doing right. Somehow people can’t seem to agree on what those right beliefs and actions are even though they seem to be really important to getting good stuff. People can’t even agree on what that good stuff truly is. But chickens don’t think the way people do.

What chickens believe about God

Chickens don’t see God as being “way up there.” If so, God would hardly ever have a chance to see any cute baby chicks snuggled close to their mother’s warm body. Even with perfect eyesight, a God “way up there” would miss most of what makes life “way down here” enjoyable.

Chickens don’t see God as looking like a person. But they also don’t see God as looking like a chicken either. Religion is about the supernatural — what is beyond the natural. So God must not look like anything that can be seen.

God can give us clues to mysteries, secrets, and promises about God’s own self. There are more of those than anyone, even a chicken, can ever know. And that is just as well, because when we think we have God all figured out, we become inclined to believe we are God. That is never a good thing for a chicken or a person.

So perhaps it is best to simply let x = x.

And let God be God.

What chickens believe about life

Chickens believe that everything with life is created to give. Giving is the key to life. Cows give milk. Chickens give eggs. Trees give shade. Even deadly things like poisonous berries give something: food for earthworms.

Chickens believe they were given life in order to give what only they can give. But it’s more than giving eggs and sometimes feathers for soft pillows to people. They also give protection and comfort to each other even to those who didn’t hatch quite right or have stopped laying eggs.

Did you know that chickens also give songs to the world? Mine began singing each other to sleep in the evening when they were in their young teenage weeks. (Exerting musical independence may be part of just being a teenager whether you are a chicken or a person.) They will still occasionally sing a bit for me just before bedtime.

What chickens believe about good and evil

Chickens are not set on getting stuff the way people are. This is because they have nowhere to store their stuff. Chickens don’t see giving as an act to be rewarded or taking as an act to be punished.

Taking is something that chickens can do when hunting for worms as you learned previously in Economics 101. But they consider this type of taking “fair” in most circumstances.

There is a type of taking which chickens are completely opposed to: systematic, organized, destructive taking. People appear to be the only living beings that have ever mastered this form of taking.

Pollution takes valuable resources. Slavery takes precious freedom. War takes irreplaceable lives. These are the creations of people alone. There is no giving in any of these things.

No living thing was ever created to give pollution, slavery, or war.

What chickens believe about death

Chickens do not see death as a curse. Whether it is from sickness, old age, or something far worse like the hatchet, they see death as their final act of giving. They will return to the earth from which they were made, leaving behind gifts that will live on in some way.

When they are still in their eggshells, baby chicks come to know there is something outside that is softly speaking to them about a wonderful world waiting for them. Then they eventually break free of their eggshells to explore all there is to explore.

As they grow in that outside world, chickens know there is another world even beyond the one they can see. It speaks softly to them as well. Then they eventually leave their bodies to again explore all there is to explore.

And as for everything in between life and death?

Well, that is more than can be covered in “You Can Learn a Lot from a Chicken: Religion 101.” But we will share more with you soon.

This article is part of a series. You can view the full list of available articles here.

You Can Learn a Lot From a Chicken

A Collection of Articles with Titles Set Up Like a College Catalogue

medium.com

Will I be able to keep my promise to have the word “chicken” at least once in every Medium story? Find out by subscribing to Medium today as a reader or writer — or both!