hypatia26 Apr 2004

I’m back now prepared with a little something from the waiting room.

Some aspects of the Resurrection, as reported in the four Gospels, make sense; some do not. I find Paul asking me to believe beyond a shadow of doubt, while I stare at reasonable doubts. Another vagueness of God? Maybe. Maybe belief doesn’t count if it’s based on reason. But that puts me in the unhappy position of deciding which unreasonable fancies I see floating around out there to believe. The Resurrection is a mystery that I do not feel compelled to believe. But I believe many things that way – like that a daffodil has become as brilliant yellow steel. Jesu used to talk this way in His stories, though more eloquently and with more to say, but beating around the bush in this way. Some things just feel right, and tear me to pieces for unlogic, but by God, I still feel this way.

Thank you for bringing this up; I feel a poem coming on now, “Tale From My Buttocks,” perhaps, no, “Child From the Outhouse,” something about God’s creations, because I don’t separate religion from the rest of it.

Add the theology of hypatia to all the others, for better or worse, til death do us part.