Where there's smoke, there's fire, though not necessarily in the Vatican at least not yet (but fingers and rosaries crossed). While driving the other day I was behind someone with a bumper sticker that you know has a HUGE story behind it.
I've seen the first part before, "My Dog is Smarter than Your Honor Student" but it was the second part, "My God Can Beat Up Your God" that led me to wonder just how deep some still waters run.
I long ago abandoned the faith of my fathers so there really is no upside to the hereafter for me. I'm not trolling for sympathy; I can appreciate the humor of having painted myself into a corner like this. I'm just never happy about signing the painting.
A work friend decades before they became a FB friend, shared a story about a faked kidnapping in her local newspaper with 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 recall some time back a story on the alterations made to an episode of South Park because someone had posted threats against the lives of the cartoon's two creators (I know, 'it takes two guys to come up with that stuff?') for defaming Islam.
I'd like to 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.
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. 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, whatever you perceive Her/Him to be, exactly what the heck we've been doing down here.
-bill kenny
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