It is Sunday again and low and behold there are people driving down the snow topped ice sheet we call my street. At just after seven, I have already heard four accidents.  I am not exactly sure why the cops actually bother to leave, they know there will be two or three more fender benders before church actually starts.  In some ways I can truthfully say I admire people of faith.  The truly faithful have something I will never have, the ability to believe in something that there is absolutely no hard evidence to support, not even sound scientific theories.  It takes a lot of guts to say I believe in something that all the evidence of the world points against. Of course that is the nature of faith.  The people who irk the fuck out of me are those that claim to be believers but don’t have any real faith.  I can’t stand the pretenders who change the rules to suit them either.  There are those who will tell you they can do that because that is simply how they interpret the bible, but I just can’t buy that.

On this marvelously cold Sunday I leave you with two things to think about.  Is Christian faith so weak that they must crusade every movie that might espouse a belief other than Christianity?  Why is it Christians, the long time persecutors of non Christians done in remembrance of a time when it was they were the persecuted by the powerful, feel the need to attack The Golden Compass movie? Could it be not that it denigrates the church and Christianity, but rather the story of a fictional church in a fictional world is portrayed as the antagonist in the allegorical tale of absolute power corrupts absolutely?  Might it be the movie and the book it is based on hits a little too close to home for some Christians?  Lastly, I leave you with the Christian musing on the matter of theology.  If the Lutheran Pastor has rear ended the Calvinist Pastor (I actually think this is the case by looking out the window) who is at fault based on their understanding of theology?  Legally the Lutheran is at fault as he slid into the Calvinist. Will the Calvinist who believes in predestination and not free will be able to fault god rather than the other driver?  Will the free will believing Lutheran acknowledge that he is the sole responsible party for the accident and that neither the ice and snow applied by the will if not direct hand of of god, nor the lack of plowing and salt the city failed to provide is the ultimate cause of the accident?