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Its about time



And I'm back! After 19 days of touring various places in Europe, the big guy is about 10 pounds lighter, has a decent beard, and is back to disseminate his various views. I'll be placing pictures up from time to time (including this new one) which have all been taken by me and my trusty Sony Powershot. I hope you all have had an eventful July, as it seems I've missed quite a bit of activity after leaving the better of the two Hemispheres. So lets get started with a common sense issue.

Finally, FINALLY, someone from the religious perspective is making the most sense out of this so called "battle" between secularists and believers across the planet. Pope Benedict on July 25th made a statement saying that the Creation vs Evolution debate is an "absurdity" and that evolution and faith can co-exist. Thank you, Pope Benedict. As a Catholic myself, this is the belief I have held from day 1, and I'll explain further in a moment. While he was considered by many as the religious "Bull Dog" to follow the widely popular John Paul II (many people in the tomb of the Popes were still praying at his enclave last week), Pope Benedict has become the unlikely voice of reason and understanding in this increasingly spiteful debate.

For your own eyes: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19956961/

For example, thanks to the best show on Television "South Park," it has become known that there is a group of people that claim to be "Pastafarians" or those that use the idea that a flying spaghetti monster could exist because it cannot be refuted (after visiting Italy, part of me wishes a flying spaghetti monster did exist-it'd get pretty messy). Among these "believers" is Christopher Hitchens, author of the new book "god is Not GREAT" who claims that religion just messes up everything on planet Earth (can we do a tally of secular vs religious charities......anyone? Dang, I guess I just let my feelings out prematurely).

On the other hand, there are those who have faith that give the 1.1 billion Catholics and the other billion Christians around the planet a bad name. Westboro Baptist Church goers (you know these nutjobs-the ones who protest at dead soldiers funerals) are the worst of the group. These people actually use the name of God and Christ to harm others, and have actually protested at my Cathedral in Kentucky to object to the baptism of children who were adopted by gay parents. However, these people number in the 20's/30's at best and should be ignored. A large group of misguided, however harmless, Baptist and other protestant groups have refuted the idea of evolution (remember those presidential candidates who received C's for saying they didn't believe in evolution? Yeah you remember) and now have constructed a museum in northern Kentucky touting the idea of Creationism in which humans lived alongside dinosaurs. Silly? Yes. Misguided? Probably. Dangerous? No. The problem at hand right now is that the two aforementioned groups of people continue to ridicule and lambast each other instead of simply acknowledging differences.

This is why the fact that it is Pope Benedict intervening should be so important. The head of the largest denomination of any religion in the world is telling both sides to calm the f*ck down and just chill for a minute. The very institution that was created by Christ himself to lead his followers (Matthew 16:18) is telling both the secular and the faithful to relax, take a deep breath, and acknowledge each other's claims for a minute. For those who wish to know the Catholic Church's standing, see Sir Thomas Aquinas and others. Basically they say that only something as magnificent as the universe, which is beyond our capacity to understand, can operate with such clockwork precision, down to the last detailed example of protons and elections working in perfect unison, through the control of the Supreme Being - God. For those who must know, this is how I feel and what I believe. Just like God doesn't come down and fix all of our problems, he does not work in overly jejune ways-the most intelligent and powerful being imaginable wouldn't deal in a simplistic fashion.

So, thank you Pope Benedict, for saying what the vast majority of us have been thinking all along.

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