“You are what you watch…. and other reflections…“
This has been a long weekend for everyone. The Easter week as the Americans would like to term it is my favorite Christian event. I like Christmas, but I think Lent is really the “SEASON”. It is what Christianity is all about. I may have doubts about religion, but I am completely amazed and dazzled by what it can accomplish in our lives and in our civilization as a whole.
I know this may sound blasphemous to some, but I spend the week watching “Sex and The City” marathons. I know God is good…. Fashion is beautiful and beauty is next to Godliness, so why not spend the week looking at fashionable clothes and shoes.
Of the four Sex in the city characters, I really love Samantha the most. She is my idol! If I could look like that and be that empowered at the age of 40 then I can honestly say that I have not lived for naught! Some may find this funny or scandalous but one of my goals when I reach the age of 40 is to have a 20 year old boyfriend (Demi is that you? – heavens, I think I may be the next Madam Auring!). Samantha’s principles in life if we may term them as principles are very liberated, very fresh and if I may say this, she has the most Christian values in her persona. She is very generous, very forgiving and very liberated - a Mary Magdalene of the present time. I really think that women like Samantha and gay men have the biggest hearts in the planet!
Jesus is the person I really look up to. I imagine him to be like the character in Andrew Loyd Weber’s Jesus Christ Superstar play. Very hip, non-self righteous – if you read the New Testament, you may be surprised to find that his best buddies are the tax collectors, sinners, and yes… even whores and adulteress. He does not tolerate their behavior but he doesn’t look down on them. He understands! Sometimes, as I watch TV evangelists I can clearly understand what Philip Yancey said in his book “The Jesus I Never Knew” – The Christian demeanor and structure is a big turn off to converts wannabes and to well meaning people. Kind people do not have enough egos to be modern day evangelists. I don’t know, this might be a case of the blind leading the blind… but this is just my personal opinion.
Religion is the salve we use to put meaning in our lives…. Can we live without religion? I don’t know… but I can really say with all conviction that the quality of living will not be the same without it….
This has been a long weekend for everyone. The Easter week as the Americans would like to term it is my favorite Christian event. I like Christmas, but I think Lent is really the “SEASON”. It is what Christianity is all about. I may have doubts about religion, but I am completely amazed and dazzled by what it can accomplish in our lives and in our civilization as a whole.
I know this may sound blasphemous to some, but I spend the week watching “Sex and The City” marathons. I know God is good…. Fashion is beautiful and beauty is next to Godliness, so why not spend the week looking at fashionable clothes and shoes.
Of the four Sex in the city characters, I really love Samantha the most. She is my idol! If I could look like that and be that empowered at the age of 40 then I can honestly say that I have not lived for naught! Some may find this funny or scandalous but one of my goals when I reach the age of 40 is to have a 20 year old boyfriend (Demi is that you? – heavens, I think I may be the next Madam Auring!). Samantha’s principles in life if we may term them as principles are very liberated, very fresh and if I may say this, she has the most Christian values in her persona. She is very generous, very forgiving and very liberated - a Mary Magdalene of the present time. I really think that women like Samantha and gay men have the biggest hearts in the planet!
Jesus is the person I really look up to. I imagine him to be like the character in Andrew Loyd Weber’s Jesus Christ Superstar play. Very hip, non-self righteous – if you read the New Testament, you may be surprised to find that his best buddies are the tax collectors, sinners, and yes… even whores and adulteress. He does not tolerate their behavior but he doesn’t look down on them. He understands! Sometimes, as I watch TV evangelists I can clearly understand what Philip Yancey said in his book “The Jesus I Never Knew” – The Christian demeanor and structure is a big turn off to converts wannabes and to well meaning people. Kind people do not have enough egos to be modern day evangelists. I don’t know, this might be a case of the blind leading the blind… but this is just my personal opinion.
Religion is the salve we use to put meaning in our lives…. Can we live without religion? I don’t know… but I can really say with all conviction that the quality of living will not be the same without it….
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