God the Bunny Kitten

I can't believe how awesome my new kitten God is. He acts like a dog in that he will follow you around the house as you get up to go get some water or look through the mail. He will sit at your feet and look up at what you are doing. He is also part bunny in that he has the fur and feet of one and from time to time he liked to partake in fits of hopping around. If we are hanging out in my room and the door is closed but not shut, he will without a doubt hop on his way out while making a purring noise that sounds like a bird. So I guess he is also part bird.

I'm glad this post starts off with a picture of God the beautiful and loving kitten. I wanted to write something this Christmas about how there is a war on Christmas and it's being perpetuated by Christians in their tirade against everything mystical and transcendent in the world, including their own 'religion'. The Christmas they want to save is the fake JC Penny capitalist holiday and has nothing to do with Christ's message, and this is very telling of modern Christianity.

"Throughout the history of Christianity the implications of the Incarnation have, relatively speaking, been so little understood and so consistently resisted that its true meaning is largely obscured. The inner meaning, the spiritual reality, which the Incarnation expresses, is of the essence of true spirituality wherever it may be found and under whatever external form it may be apprehended. The Christ is a cosmic and omnipresent reality which is always involved in higher religion under whatever name he may be known. For the real Name of Christ, the only Name under heaven whereby men may be saved, is not, of course, the literal composite of sounds J-E-S-U-S, but the spiritual and universal reality incarnate in Jesus... This reality is necessary for man's union with God."

Alan Watts, "Behold the Spirit", 1947