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Thursday, February 18, 2010

planet jesus

I find John Muirs theology more and more to be the only kind i can tolerate. as religious institutions have largely failed to evolve, their tenets have atrophied in anachronism, they have left the masses with inadecuate tools for spiritual search and understanding, and have resulted in the many wayward definitions of christiandom that the 20th century created. the concepts behind the original teachings of jesus are not made contemporary, the process of worship remains the same out of tradition, which in the end only further separates religion from our social reality. the only interpretation that i see fit in a modern concept is a socialist one, i think that jesus would not aprove of capitalism, i think that something in the glory and integrity of redwoods as well as the underclass would lead jesus to protect them.

something in humans audacity, to think that they may do and undo wherever they next happen to lay down property lines over "gods creation" and yet i feel that so rarely is there ever an emphasis on these two points. i would never discredit the philanthropic work that churhes continue to do, its laudable, but the main focus has yet to turn away from trappings of form and turn to the urgency of function, which both a forest and a cathedral should provide, to remind me of the interconnected nature of my existance and to strive for a more harmonious, and ultimately equitable, fair, humble, and simple (efficient in the way a tree is efficient, not a plow)way of exisisting and of allowing other things to exist. this is a true christian mans concern, not the petty cultural hoo ha which encompases so much of regilious policy and action. Muirs save the red woods frames jesus' body in the trees, he uses this simple modern comparison to help us even understand why we need a jesus, a savior, because the tree needs one to, and only in killing the first redwood, in understanding its uniqueness and beauty and permanence and place, did we understand the crime commited against nature and god in its untimely destruction, and how it can come back to dam us in the end as well.

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