Son of a Lessor God

Hezikia : Chapter 1 Verse 1...

This is my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.

He was not born of a virgin, but his older sister was. Because I am one of the lessor Gods it did not make a big impact in the Sacred Scripture scene. Beside girl gods are not looked on with favor in a patriarchial system.

Actually I just had this picture of my son on his new Harley and thought I would share it with you. It is really funny to watch him caress it with a special cloth to make it shine. His girlfriend is jealous of a riding machine. I can't blame her. Riding behind him is her best chance to press the flesh,unless he is wearing his leather jacket.

In my opinion, it is not his smartest move. As a teen he had long hair and played a guitar. I thought that was dumb. Then at the beginning of the First Gulf War he joined the Army because he wanted to fight. I said "Okay, that's the dumbest". Then he decided to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft wearing a backpack. I amended my opinion. That was the dumbest. Then he decided to go into business with me. DUMB! We went bankrupt. Got Married ...Dumb ( Grandkids were a good thing). 

But then Zeus wasn't all that happy with Hercules and even Jesus accused God of abandon him during that Cross Scene.

 Later I will write about my oldest child and her birthright thing Since I am a Lessor and Mortal God and times are changing on this equal rights for women thing, and she does have that Once upon a Time Birthright thing ,maybe she can handle my Lessor God Title. Good luck with that.

Marriage Should Not Be Legal

 According to Wikipedia, Marriage is a social, religious, spiritual and/or legal union of individuals 

that creates kinship. Marriage is an institution in which interpersonal relationships are 

acknowledged by the state, by religious authority, or both. It is often viewed as a contract. Civil 

marriage is the legal concept of marriage as a governmental institution. The act of marriage 

changes the personal and social status of the individuals who enter into it.

People marry for many reasons;  legal, social, emotional, and economic stability, the formation of a 

family unit, procreation,and the education and nurturing of children; legitimizing sexual relations and 

public declaration of love. Marriage may take many forms. For example, a union between one man 

and one woman is heterosexual marriage. A marriage in which a person takes more than 

one spouse is polygamy.  Some jurisdictions and religious denominations recognize same-sex 

marriage. .

A marriage in modern times is usually performed by a religious minister or a civil officer. The act of 

marriage usually creates legal obligations between the individuals involved and usually their 

extended families.

Why is the freedom to marry so important? For starters, marriage is the most universally recognized social institution in the world. So if the ultimate goal is to achieve full equality for all people in all aspects of society, then achieving equality in this most prominent arena will certainly go far toward realizing this vision. More important, marriage is, at its core, a public recognition of a private commitment that two people in love make to each other, a commitment that transcends gender.

So why should marriage not be legal?  Because the most important connotations of the word Marriage are social and religious in nature and or defined by organized religion, personal religious beliefs, or personal values. The Government has no stake in the word Marriage as a legal term. In fact  Freedom of Religion would dictate that Goverment should not use the word at all.

But goverment does provide certain benefits and obligations to the Civil aspects of Marriage and therefore should have a term to appy to this Union.  The only logical  conclution is to call this Civil Contract to which government provides legal benefits and Legal Obligations is a Civil Union.  The Word Marriage should never be a part of the legal definition.

If A person wishes to have his Religious Institution call the Union marriage after the proper ceremony, or if the private individuals wish to call their Union a marriage then so be it.  So long as they obtain the proper Government licenses for their Civil Union in order to secure the benefit & obligation of the Union, They should be free to call their Union whatever makes them Happy.

Power of Hate

Thomas Robb is the National Director of the Knights Party, a kinder gentler version of the old Knights of the Klu Klux Klan. They do their recruiting by talking about Love for White people instead of hating Blacks and Jews .

But they do promote a program calling for the "voluntary resettlement" of minorities to their home land. Considering the fact that Whites will be a minority in this country in the not to distant future I was wondering how they felt about all whites returning to Europe and allowing Native Americans to reclaim their Homeland. I can picture all of the tribes that we forced to march to Oklahoma returning to their birthplace in the South. some of them were my relatives. Of course my English,Scotch-Irish, French , and Dutch relatives could be a problem for me.

But if life has taught me anything, it has taught me that People who hate can call anyplace Home if they can build a power base.The election of Barac Obama and the use of Christian Symbolism has help them make a comeback in my Beloved South. They have even developed a Youth Program much like Hitler Youth to build from the ground up. Religion was a big part of Racial Prejudice in the days of "Jim Crow" Hopefully The church won't make the same mistakes again. Hopefully it will embrace the teachings of Jesus and the "Good Samaritan" rather than follow Moses and his Laws of Leviticus. Hopefully we will remember The Command to Love One Another and seek truth.

Tree of Knowledge

Tree of knowledge

 God placed man in the Garden that He planted East of Eden, He gave him everything he needed to survive. He even gave him a tree that would allow him to live forever. It was called the Tree of life. But there was a small wrinkle in the plan. There was also a tree called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Since Adam and Eve had been put in the Garden, they had been walking around naked. As it turns out this was considered a sin. As soon as they acquired knowledge they were ashamed of what they were doing. I have always wondered why God thought it was alright to sin as long as Adam & Eve were ignorant. But I get ahead of myself.

The question that has puzzled me the most is why He put the Tree there in the first. If He really wanted stupid people to represent Him as his creation, why put the tree there in the first place.

 If He created the Serpent, surely He must have known the Serpent had wanted man to have a different future from the one God had planned. God decided to teach the Serpent a lesson. That reminded me of what the Greek God Zeus did to Prometheus for giving man the gift of fire. Apparently Gods get a little angry if they think you are a threat to their power.

One other thing that has puzzled me is why the Church teaches that man was removed from the Garden because he disobeyed.   In Genesis: 3rd Chapter verse 22 "The Lord God said: Obviously in knowing Good and Evil, man has become like one of us. Now then , he might reach out his hand to pluck and eat from the Tree of Life so as to live forever. So the Lord God expelled him from the Garden of Eden....."  It seems to me the Gods were just afraid of Man's potential. But I guess the apple hasn't fallen too far from the tree.  Powerful men are also jealous of those who threaten their power.   The lesson must be to remain ignorant and do what you are told.

William Hodge 

Unitarian Universalist ?

        

I went to a Unitarian Universalist Church in Columbia, SC for a brief time many years ago when I began my love affair with being a Seeker of new ideas. It was too far to drive . My commitment level to anything was not at the "passionate" level in those days. Actually, it still isn't. But I have good memories of warm, tolorant, and thoughtful people. Any Group that could welcome a former conservative Southern Baptist into their church approached life with open arms. I found this Group while Facebook surfing and wanted to share their humor with you.


You may be a Unitarian Universalist if:

1. You think socks are too formal for a Summer service.
2. You know at least 5 ways to say "Happy holidays!"
3. Your idea of a guy's night out is going to a N.O.W. rally.
4. Unleavened bread is part of your Easter Brunch.
5. You refer to construction paper as "paper of color."
6. The name of your church is longer than your arm.
7. You find yourself rewriting a church survey, rather than taking it.
8. You call up your minister in the middle of the night, panicking because you are starting to believe in God.
9. To explain your personal theology, you have to use interpretive dance.
10. You take your day planner to church instead of the Bible.

TO A NEW BEGINNING

We Have Hope

The last time I wrote something on this Blog was in 2004, just before George Bush won his second term.So much has changed and yet so little. I'm still basically the same person(just older), but the country has change around me.
The greed that feeds and motivates our economic system has brought us to the edge of disaster. It often has in the past. It will bring us back from the edge when we have made conditions right as it also has done in the past.

It also brought the Republicans to their knees, at least for now. It helped to elect a new kind of President that I could not have hoped to believe would happen for many years into the future. It is equally hard to believe how much joy that could bring to the heart of this old Southern White Boy. I have always wanted to believe in the future of the Human Race. Perhaps my grandchildern will see the beginning of such an age.

The thing that makes me sad is that my Beloved South has allowed the Republican money people to convince many of the Christians among us that the Laws of Moses imposes  material "moral values" that overide the Power of Love that Jesus taught us. It was easy to do because most whites don't want to vote for a party that shares power with minorities. Richard Nixon and Harry Dent converted the South to Republicanism Now we stand on the sideline of History with our Fear & Guilt  while others change the world for the better.

During the last Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt gave us Social Security(upon which I now depend for dignity and sustinence) and he led us into the new world. What will the Democrats  do for America now while the Republicans are "wandering in the Wilderness" searching for the New Fear to help feed the Greed of unbridaled Capitalism. Hopefully we will learn to controlled greed and fill both need to eliminate Poverty and growth Wealth at the same time.