Letters to the Editor
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Old fat guys with three chins
Hilarious! It got me thinking.
What if the Creator (I'm part Native American AND Christian, I claim the right to say the "Creator" without specifying which one I have in mind!) I think they're all one anyway! where was I.
What if the Creator sees the old fat white guy with three chins, in a business suit with a bejeweled flag pin on the lapel, escorting his J.C. Penney-clad wife to the Navigator after lunch at Bob Evans, the SAME as the hummingbird? Equally magnificent as a created creature, equally shortsighted and hobbled by weaknesses and smallness beyond its control, and equally infused (or whatever the word is) with a measure of the Divine nature?
Any person of any religion can try this exercise. Look at the most despicable, unclean, weak, wrong-acting, misguided, slobby, wrong-headed, boorish, sinning-against-the-planet, warmongering, lazy or slacking, sex-needing, me-firsty, future-not-planning, creature of your choice. Try to look at that creature the way a supposed benevolent and understanding Creator would. Of course many followers of many religions do just the opposite. This is what I personally think religion calls us to try to do. This doesn't mean the old fat white guy with three chins won't destroy the planet and all of us with it. It doesn't mean he and his ilk shouldn't be prevented to the best of our ability to do so. It just means that to me, religion involves the idea that all creatures have some inherent part of the Divine in them, even the ones I think are all despicable. Who am I to think of that other creature as all despicable, be that other creature a welfare recipient, an arrogant person of the opposite sex who dissed me, Ted Haggard, or Dick Cheney. I prefer to believe the Creator loves Dick Cheney in the same way He, She, or It loves that hummingbird. I don't have to love Dick Cheney the same as the hummingbird, because I am a flawed and weak despicable creature myself. Well I think you get the idea. I don't know why I wanted to post this...I just had a moment of pity or something or other for the old white guy with three chins and his misguidedness and the whole sorry wreck of humanity, hummingbirds too.