TV's Frink said:
TV's Frink said:
Ok, what the hell?
Did no one see what I did there. :-(
Anyway, I like the idea of Trooper having made all those socks. At least we'd know that poor Father Skywalker was a creation and not really that...um...how should I put it?
Yes, I am a Christian, but hopefully as close to the 'original version' as possible. I know this sounds arrogant, but it isn't intended that way. I humbly hope that I become like those original Christians, but I am still 'work in process'. I'm sure Jesus would not be welcome in most 'Christian' churches today any more that he was welcome in synagogues of his day. As the Christian church became 'mainstream' and organized, it became corrupted and its original message so clouded and watered down as to be practically useless. I have little use for organized religion, as they are simply religious franchises.
My 'pope' is Jesus himself, and he is the one I will have to answer to in the end. I get into his heaven only if he recognizes me as his own. And that scares me! What will he see when he stares me in the eyes and looks into my soul? I'm not so worried about everyone else as I am about my own soul. This is very real to me as I get older and I'm not going to live forever ... and the fact that I could die anytime, any night while I sleep.
Accommodation allowed only a caricature of Christianity to survive. I fear true Christianity may be almost extinct. Maybe it still survives or even thrives 'underground' as it did during the early Roman Empire. Original Christianity under fire was true Christianity 'on fire'. It changed the world ... until it itself was changed ... You might say that it got watered down and the fire went out.