Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Kelly Baron, 27, “agnostic atheist.”
Anyway, I grew up in a godless household. Once, when I was probably four, my cousin, who’s nine years older, took me in her arms and showed me a picture. She said, “This is a man named Jesus, and he lives way up in the sky. He sees everything we do, and he’s here to protect us, and he loves us no matter what.” I worshipped my cousin, so I was like, “Whoa!”
I have a pretty strong feeling that not a whole lot happens after we die. I got into a conversation about it recently, and this guy was like, “Here’s what I think will happen: I’m going to die and then go to this place and then I will return as this, and I will remember these things about my life, but not these things.” He had a whole plan all mapped out.
