Don't fret - I'm not abandoning this blog as I've abandoned soooo many others the past. No, no, don't look at my personal history! Look at the NOW! Be. Here. Now.!
Okay, yes, I do have a bit of a history of, er, "blog 'em and leave 'em".
But this time I really don't want to do that.
The problem is it's really hard for me to find big chunks of free time in which to write - that I don't want to use for other things.
Like "Scrubs" reruns. Hey, do you think THIS time Ted will really jump off the roof?
But seriously folks - religion! Christ! OK, here we go.
How I feel now, after - what? - a month of this? is that the nonbelievers are probably right. Either Jesus existed but wasn't God, or he didn't exist at all and all the stories about him are just that - stories.
So the real question for me is - are the stories of any value?
Because look - I read a lot. a LOT lot.
When I was a kid, my brother and sister would sleep with stuffed animals. I slept with books.
I love to read! So the idea that these are "stories" doesn't really bother me that much. Let's say they are.
Are they GOOD stories? Are they worth reading? Do they teach anything that might be of use to me, in my daily life?
I think some of them do. Jesus himself told a lot of great stories.
How about "The Prodigal Son", eh? That was a good one! C'mon, how can you not love a story that has both hookers AND pigs?
And that Good Samaritan story was pretty cool too. The two bad guys were the Catholic priest and the lawyer - and the good guy was the Muslim! You won't hear that one on Rush Limbaugh anytime soon!
So maybe the answer I'm eventually going to settle on is the one that a lot of Christians have found - focus on what Jesus actually said, and NOT on what any of the Churches say they THINK he MEANT to say.
Not that I agree with everything Jesus said, but any religious leader who loves cheesemakers* can't be all bad.
* Blessed are the Cheesemakers!
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