Cookie's Religion & Outdoorsman

But you didn't go to, did you go to church regularly? My impression was that they did. We did it for a while, but. Daddy had his own ideas of religion, and, um, he didn't like the concept that you're born in sin and that you go to hell, and [00:09:00] so I think I said something to some of you about his feeling was that, um, we've been created to be above an animal with a brain that can help us to make decisions and change things, and that We shouldn't do anything, uh, this has been a gift, the gift of life, and so you shouldn't do anything to destroy what you've been given.

And, you know, interfere with your process to think correctly and do the right things. And so he, he stressed more behavior to one another and, and, uh, and good, good solid living habits. And not so much. About the hereafter. Did he believe in the hereafter? If you do a good job on earth, that's your duty. Did he believe in the hereafter?

Or was it, he was kind of atheist? You never discussed it, no. He was more concerned [00:10:00] with what was going on in your life while you were here. To be more than just an animal. You're a human being now. And you should act. With this added intelligence and ability. I have a memory of I think of going to Kirk in the Hills, with your mom and dad, and your mom part way through it going, I can't take this anymore!

David: That was Mrs. Strickland. Oh, okay. Mrs. Strickland. Okay, getting up and walking out. Yeah, the singing, I don't know. Anyway, yeah, you could really hear her. But anyway, I, looking back, I think I had a pretty good, solid, you know, home life, and situation with lots of relatives and family and love. And Cookie was very connected to nature too, wasn't he an outdoorsman?

Margo: Oh, he had, he should have had boys. He had us camping all the time, and wading streams, fishing, and, and, um, [00:11:00] yeah, and picnicking, as I was saying, to someone up the Urine River, and, and, um, so, we just had a lot of family time together.