Get Off the Cross

Driving home the other day I was behind someone with a bumper sticker that you just know has a HUGE story behind it. I've sort of seen the first part before, "My Dog is Smarter than Your Honor Student" but it was the other part, "My God Can Beat Up Your God" that leads me to wonder just how deep some still waters run.

I long ago abandoned in despair the faith of my fathers so there really is no upside to the hereafter-I can appreciate the humor in having painted myself into a corner like this; I'm just never happy about having to sign the painting.

Someone shared a story from a local newspaper with me a long time ago about a faked kidnapping involving a mother, her one-year-old child, and this elaborate charade the woman went through to be able to run off with her new boyfriend, leaving her husband. When asked why she didn't just divorce him, the woman said she wouldn't (couldn't) because of religious reasons.

I can also remember the death threats sometime back against the lives of the two creators of South Park for defaming Islam (I know, 'it takes two guys to come up with that stuff?'). Everybody's a critic, I guess. 

Notice I'm not even mentioning the religious overtones fueling the bonfire of Roe vs Wade Revisited (mainly because I think women's reproductive rights are something women should determine) though I'd be happy if those of the religious persuasion would keep their rosaries off other people's ovaries.

I think so many different cultures around the world have embraced the idea of a deity because the ideal represents a unification of values and belief systems that, no matter the flavor or brand, have more in common sometimes than those who practice them. But I've grown old watching us shift from the idea that we were created in God's image and likeness to vice versa, which scares me more than I care to admit. 

Probably not my place to wonder, but if there are End Times, and they do arrive and all that which is prophesied does come to pass, who among us is going to stand before the angels and archangels, Cherubim and Seraphim, the Thrones and Dominations, and explain to God, however you perceive Her/Him to be, exactly what we've been doing down here. 
That should be a hoot.

-bill kenny