OMG...Pagan roots!

Every generation discovers that Christianity has some pagan roots... (there are some pretty good scholars who say it ain't necessarily so)... and gets all hot and bothered about it and throws out the baby Jesus with the bath water.   So what else is new and worth getting excited about?

Any Satanists out there?

Strange things you find on Facebook.  "Satanists are more Christ-like than Conservative Christians." I'm not equipped to answer that.  I don't think I know any Satanists.  If I do, they are keeping it under wraps.

Good Old King James

I like the King James Bible. The Thee and Thou language has a certain appeal. I like snark, too. Here is my snarky comment to the very religious and the equally anti-religious. Thou takest thyself  too damn seriously. 

Saints Preseve Us!

I am into Saints these days.  All Saints. I'm glad they have their day.
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Did you ever go to a church where there was a JackO'lantern on the altar at Halloween?  I did.  No, they were not Satan worshipers or anything like that...just "progressive." Had any fundamentalists wandered in, they would surely have been horrified.  I thought it was kind of funny.   

The Tillich and Barth Show.

OK, here's a couple of interesting ideas about God.  God is not some kind of  super person, something like me but a lot better.   Paul Tillich, a hot shot theologian and a pretty smart fellow, said God is "The ground of being." Another big deal theologian back in the day, Karl Barth, said God isn't like me at all, but "The wholly other. " If you don't like either of those, make up your own.

Just the facts Ma'am.

I can think of few things more boring than some kind of "alternative spiritual center" or "church for people that hate church" that has been stripped of all religious myth, legend and tradition and replaced with historically, archaeologically, scientifically provable, factual "truth."  How dull.

But if it makes you feel like you are one with the universe, be my guest.

Why Goofy?

Why goofy?  Am I in the camp that declares  all church teaching and activity inherently  goofy... or worse?  No No No.  What I declare is that most of the ideas that most people have about church are basically goofy.  That includes mine. Join the club. Let us accept each others goofiness.