Comeback

The only thing making a bigger comeback than Steve Jobs has got to be religion. Wasn't religion so passe, just even a couple a decades ago. I mean, seriously...religion. But goddamn (pardon) if it hasn't come back recently - and I mean with a vengence. First, there's the evangelical movement, then the islamic fundamentalists, and now all this Passion of the Christ lovers/Da Vinci Code haters. What is going on?

Anyhow, it's something to talk about, and here is a C.S. Lewis point that really pushes the chips into the table:

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him (Jesus): 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

Sorry Mom, and all you serious folks, if want to get down and play nasty poker, you got it: I vote madman.