A Walk Across America - Chapters 19-20

Peter felt alot of pain leaving Smokey Hollow because he grew to love his new family.  They crossed into Georgia and someone told him about a farm that he should go visit that was 300 miles out of the way.  He decided they needed to see it and turned to go toward Tennesse.  Peter must really be curious about this place to walk 300 miles out of the way.  Peter and Cooper passed by some people having a picnic and they invited him for a coke.  He saw them drinking water from a jug and wanted some but when he took a drink it wasn't water, it was moonshine.  This made his walk a little harder that afternoon.  I would be scared to drink after strangers.  They stopped at a gas station and Cooper got in a fight with a Great Dane.  Both dogs were equally strong and good fighters.  It must have been hard for Peter to watch Cooper fight and not step in.  The dogs gave  up because neither was stronger.  The Great Dane owner wanted to buy Cooper and fight him in dog fights.  Peter wouldn't sell him, not even for a million dollars.  He really loves his dog.  I would sell my dog for a million dollars! 
Peter and Cooper made it to the farm.  The farm was 2000 acres and the people lived in tents.  They helped with the farming and helped raise each others kids.  They had their babies on the farm.  There were a lot of pregnant women on the farm.  They were very religious. They belived that everyone was God.  They believed that they were all one and they should not compete for food or housing or individuality. They had meditation on Sunday.  They would sit cross-legged and chant.  They believed that God disappears every time you look for him.  This is all so strange to me.  Why would someone worship a  God that disappears?  I believe God created us to be individuals and to worship him and be dependent on him, not some professor from a university.  Before Peter left he researched the Farm and who the people were that live on the Farm.  He discovered that most of them had no religious belief and decided that they came to the Farm looking for religion.  Peter thought that maybe he was looking for his God too.