When the new world dawned...

Yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake the likeness of the former world they knew...
T.E.Lawrence

In Egypt, long before Jesus, in the middle of the 12th month, a statue of Hours was placed in a model of a stable, next to his mother Isis... a virgin...

Mahamaya, gives birth to Buddha, without sexual intercourse...

Vishnu the God, enters the body of Devaki and his himself born as Krishna...

The Sun God Surya impregnates the virgin Kunti who gives birth to Karna and Kunti's maidenhood is restored....


An African story tells of a God walking between two fields with a hat which is green on one side and red on the other. He walks out of sight and reverses the hat, he then walks back... the people in the field begin to fight over what color hat God wears... God laughs...

Sometimes I think some Christians are among the only people who don't teach as a primary function of religious education that it is not the elements of the parable that count... it is the meaning behind the story which leads us to know that of God in others. When the elements become the point... we commit the error of paganism ... we fight over the shape of the idol we have made to hide God.

Thou shalt have no God but God.

Lorcan Otway to a friend one day in Belfast in the 1970s... "Sure we Republicans will win. We will know we win when the best of us is murdered by minor figures in the Republican movement who will declare victory and sell out the Irish working class.The best complement they will pay us on that day... is to shoot us. It will prove we were right. "

Lorcan Otway to that same dear friend, wherever you are today... Then they will make a working class saint of those they killed and say they are following their philosophy... Charston Heston... on the first Gulf War... "This is a war that even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have supported... " old men.