Wasn't that one of the first things the good lord had Adam do, name
everything? Didn't he have all the animals parade in front of Adam so
that he could name each and every one of them? Isn't that in the
bible? You would think if it was good enough for the good lord in the
Garden of Eden, it would be good enough for Beagles in the Freehold of
Beaglesonia.
Mighty particular though aren't you about whether Paul was an apostle or
a disciple though? A rather fine distinction to worry about the guy
who really created Christianity. Guys like Jesus were a dime a dozen
back in that day, it was Paul who made him the cornerstone of the big
religion. If it hadn't been Jesus it could just as well have been any
other guy. It was Paul who was the starmaker.
Well certainly Christianity borrowed plenty. It came of age in Rome in
the hay day of New Age thought. You know Christianity was kind of like
communism, it came of age in a time of freedom of speech, but once it
settled into the seat of power there would be no more freedom of
speech. You either believe this or you step up to the stake.
I don't know that if it says that in the rules. Well it says something
like that in the ten commandments, the one about having no other god
before Him, but that is in the old testament, and the old testament is
like that grouchy old uncle that we all love and revere, but we don't
take him all that seriously.
Anyway when we were talking about loving your friends and hating your
enemies we were talking about the rules of the religion, not the
behavior of the adherents. In that sense Christianity is no different
than the other big religions, they all say the same nice things.
And in behavior of the adherents, as far as obeying the rules they like
and disobeying the rules they don't, I don't think the behavior of
Christians is much different than that of any other religion.
We are all God's chillens, and He is waiting for us to name things. Sometimes we need an urban cousin to do it for us.
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