The Religion of Peas

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I was reading a published article in which "The Religion of Peace(TM)" was mentioned. That caught my attention. It made me think of another religion that bore a similar name. The non-trademarked "Religion of Peas." This was a reminder to me of an earlier posting of mine about this general subject on another, less-fortunate website. No matter that - I made a small study of the religion now that I had been informed of its existence. Now then, the Religion of Peas is a singularly tasty sort of religion. When you look at a pea, it might remind you of yet another off-brand sort of religion, one that boasts of fanatic adherents that many onlookers call "holy rollers." (As do peas from a pod, those holy roller types tend to roll freely when turned loose, so maybe that is the reason they picked up such a strange name.) However, that sect does not have anything to do with the Religion of Peas. Anyway, back to the more tasty aspects of this fascinating Religion of Peas... They have a ceremony much like the "communion" practice of the Christian religion, but, instead of a little sip of red wine, the Peas communicants get to lap up big, steaming bowls of pea chowder. They tell me that, in the more affluent Religion of Peas congregations, the pea chowder contains little pieces of spicy sausage. In the kosher congregations that have the pea chowder routine, they use beef sausage. I asked myself, "Why spicy sausage?" Later on, I learned that the hot spice in the sausage helped to keep the congregations wide awake during Religion of Peas worship lectures. Some time back, I had come across a nifty image, a real work of art, made up of peas acting very much in an erratic (not erotic) manner. Back then I did not know that the picture of those peas was really the posterized symbol used by The Religion of Peas people to push their major humanitarian theme, "peas in our time." The image's caption was "Whirled Peas." It is amazing the stuff someone can learn if they pay attention. Image source - Whirled Peas from Gus Kilthau