What if we have it all wrong.....?
I sit around wondering about the strangest things sometimes. Crazy religous things. End of life as we know it kinds of things.

Sometimes I wonder if God was talking about his relationship with Lucifer in the Story of the Return of the Prodigal Son......

I wonder [this is a totally christian perspective] if while most of us are sitting around waiting for a huge cataclysmic event to harken the beggining of Armageddon, if it has not already been happening for a while now. Almost like when the Jews of Christ's time expected their savior to come in brandishing a sword atop a white horse to save their flesh; a powerful king, but instead recieved the poor son of a carpenter only trying to save their souls. Maybe, while we have been waiting for the no-holds-barred, knockdown fight for our flesh to start and shatter the world around us, the fight for our souls has long been under way....

I sometimes think that if God doesn't spank America soon for our behavior, that he may owe Soddom & Gammorah an apology...

I read this really interesting article about the relationship between Christ and Judas. It proposed that maybe Judas didn't "betray" Jesus, the two being the closest of friends among the other apostles; instead Christ knowing he had to confront the ruling authorities, asked Judas [the usual pronouncer of their entrance to city authorities] to report his coming. It also had an explanation for the giving of the money [50 silver pieces] as well. Makes one wonder, and is interesting as hell if nothing else...

I believe that the Bible and Science are the ultimate compliments of each other; not two opposing sides as some might believe. I believe that Science is man's understanding of the things that were layed out, by someone other than us for sure, a long time ago. Alot of these things recorded in the very basic language of the Bible.

Like what, you might ask?

Well, the taking of blood, for one [at that time mainly cooked as food] With the leaps and bounds of science we now know that blood is a huge carrier of the a myriad of things that might be bad for us. But how do you explain this thousands of years ago with the state of science or even with man's understanding of such things almost non-existent? Like any parent might to a young child, Do this because I told you. As we grow older we understand and realize the reasons behind "because I said so"; was for our own welfares. Now so, for us as a "maturing" species, enlightenment slowly coming to us, too......

Evolution happens...no two ways about it. Although no one has ever seen a monkey become a man, that is a simplistic approach to Darwin; it may not be shown to us that extreme but it is there, nonetheless. We are bigger, faster, stronger, and smarter by design than people even just a few generations earlier than ours. For example, as a High School 800 meter runner in track, the times I ran would have been competitive, maybe even snagging me a gold medal, in the early 1900's Olympic games.We are programmed to adapt...that is the beauty of our design; our brilliance, and the ultimate testement to a higher creator.

My favorite painting of all time is religious in nature....The Taking of Christ by Michelangelo Caravaggio [interesting story behind this painting too...check it out sometime]

Never be afraid to question everything...it isn't disrespectful, but rather a sign of wanting to know and understand the Truth of something. Not settling for the " I told you so", but enlightening yourselves to the why behind it; Eventually leading to the answer we all seek.....