tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post8115993544073348421..comments2024-01-07T00:58:01.364-05:00Comments on SON OF THE CUCUMBER KING: A Day of AweRay Errol Fox / Son of the Cucumber Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244270231118696818noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-48306689632457047602009-10-06T10:09:32.052-04:002009-10-06T10:09:32.052-04:00Regarding god apologizing in your day of awe post:...Regarding god apologizing in your day of awe post: She/he/it first has to exist before an apology (or much else) can be expected.TrustMovieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-54686154612033760062009-09-25T22:33:25.797-04:002009-09-25T22:33:25.797-04:00Wow...
That coda sure did catch me by surprise. ...Wow... <br /><br />That coda sure did catch me by surprise. It makes me feel like an idiot after sitting here, waiting to post "שָׁלוֹם" in my comment. (שָׁלוֹם, by the way.) <br /><br />Those final words hit me like a punch to the face. Seriously, I'm seeing stars here! My mind is a maze...<br /><br />I think I was going to share about how I visited a synagogue for the first time in my life last week as part of a political event I was representing. During our discussions, I remember being taken by a stained-glass rendering of the creation which featured a not-so-subtle allusion to the <a href="http://www.helixglass.co.uk/images/leaded/thumbnails/fibonacci.jpg" rel="nofollow">Fibonacci spiral</a>. Odd as it sounds, it made me smile more than anything adorning the walls of my church at home. It filled me with a euphoria that I often feel when reminded of my ancestral, spiritual homeland: Italy. (Actually, Sicily, to be specific.)<br /><br />I also remember raising the eyebrows of more than a few of my Dante's <i>Inferno</i> students yesterday when I described Jesus of Nazareth the way his apostles did in Matthew and Luke: "Rabbi".<br /><br />And finally, I remember detailing in that same class the fate of the fabled "True Cross", which legend held was quarried by Empress Helena of Constantinople from Golgotha itself. Whether genuine or not, this relic was arrogantly paraded by warmongering Crusaders into battle until it was carelessly discarded after their massacre at Hattin, and taken into the custody of Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn, Sultan of Egypt and Syria. Since Jesus is considered a prophet of Islam, Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn preserved this relic, and even offered to ransom it back to the Christians. However, after a final insult from Richard the Lionheart, Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn took the cross deep into Syria to an unknown location "to keep it safe from Christians", as I described it. Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn's act might be the single greatest comment ever made on the Crusades.<br /><br />I don't know if it is my nature or upbringing that draws me to the Abramistic religions as opposed to others, but I, like so many others before me, cannot help but shake my head over how the Kingdom of Heaven is perverted by the religions of man.<br /><br />Should God apologize for these failures?<br /><br />I... I cannot bring myself to answer. The shock of the question has not yet left me.Jacopohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12043008473565676891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216011953770444735.post-16069362256657765422009-09-24T14:58:06.401-04:002009-09-24T14:58:06.401-04:00Thanks for the unique insight!Thanks for the unique insight!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com