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[T769]The Time Warp Music

by Olga Moe, Olg

If Holy Spirit transcends the trappings of time and space, then why are some Christians still talking about slaves, warriors, battles, masters, kings, thrones, conquering nations, races and animal sacrifice? If Christ is eternal, then why do we keep associating Him with the cultural limitations of his temporal life on earth?

I attend a fundamentalist church because I find spiritual release in the enthusiasm and music of its members. I appreciate their focused faith and the uninhibited way in which they express their closeness with the Source. I like the idea of speaking in tongues. To me, it means that there is an exquisite force sustaining us, and it is far bigger than our confused little human minds. This Energy is even powerful enough to override temporal intellectual notions. I have often wondered how people who are so free in worship style and demonstrate nearly the same enthrallment found at a hippy love-in, can be so narrow in their understanding of the physical and the spirit world. I have gotten practiced at avoiding our differences of opinion, and of keeping my mouth shut. Sometimes it hurts me though, that the divine is still so enmeshed with cultural and political issues.

During the time of Christ's earth manifestation, the human population was not even aware that the earth was round. The area around the Fertile Crescent was the universe. As always, nations were fighting one another for supremacy. Their political problems of the era were similar to ones that we have now, only theirs just happened to take place during the era of Christ's time on earth. Fundamentalists seem to assume that the trappings of that physical place and time are one and the same with an eternal, spiritual code. They are focusing on content rather than context. The content is only an example of that particular era in history, but those same references to master, servant, throne, king, slave and chosen nation are used to describe the whole Christian religion as it is even today.

How are we ever going to get beyond the ?us-them? mentality, the ?my God is better than your God? confusion and the ?God's gonna get you? understanding of the divine? Please. Let's leave nations and wars and politics and customs and rituals and social order out of religion. I know there is a Holy Spirit, or else why would a physical body be given the grace to automatically heal itself? But the Holy Spirit of my world is completely above fleeting, physical human issues. Until everyone accepts this fact, there will always continue to be wars and murders cloaked as ?God sanctioned endeavors? and we will never truly aspire to a level higher than that of human fallibility, and we will continue to escape any responsibility for our faults by saying, ?God, (Daddy) made us this way.?

If you want to know the truth, I believe gender is a superficial attribute as well. Simply because Christ manifested as a human male does not have to mean that the Holy Spirit is incapable of manifesting in any other manner. Fundamentalists are still trapped at the physical level on this issue too, but I will save that idea for another article.

Everyone loved Luke and Laura in the afternoon. Lady Diana became the People's Princess when she married Prince Charles. Nighttime soaps like Dallas and Dynasty ruled the airwaves. President Ronald Reagan ruled the United States. Tom Cruise felt the need for speed. Michael Milliken was the Junk Bond King. Gordon Gekko taught Wall Street whiz kids that greed was good. Material Girl Madonna made her musical debut.

What decade was it?

We can only be talking about that terrific time period – the excellent eighties.

Here are twenty-one ways for you to verify that you belong to (or belong in) the 1980's.

1.Breakdancing on the sidewalk looked like fun. Now it just looks like you might break something.

2.You can still recite dialogue from any movie starring Molly Ringwald.

3."Cell phones" meant the telephone people used when they got their "one phone call" in jail.

4.You had at least one of the following: a Cabbage Patch Kid, He-Man action figures, a Rubik's Cube, or something with a Pac-Man logo on it.

5.You remember a lot of headlines about the Human Genome Project, which was a complete mapping of human DNA. You also remember how this was supposed to lead to the eradication of disease.

6.You remember the day that thousands of radio stations across the world played "We Are The World" at the exact same time. (Now, you're singing it!)

7.Your first album was a vinyl 33 and you laughed at your parents because they wanted to play 45's and 8-track tapes.

8.You know who Oliver North is and why he was in the news.

9.Someone on your street or neighborhood sent his or her life savings to a later discredited televangelist.

10.You hung out with your friends at the mall, especially in the video arcade where you exchanged those hard-earned quarters for tokens.

11.You know that "glasnost" means openness or transparency and "perestroika" means economic restructuring.

12.You and your friends made fun of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady. (The fictional woman was named Mrs. Fletcher and the product was the LifeCall emergency service.)

13.You inserted "like" liberally and unnecessarily throughout your sentences. Like so, "Like, that was, like, the hardest test we ever had. So after class, I was all like asking the teacher and she was like it wouldn't have been hard if you had studied. Then I was like is that like wicked rude or what?"

14.You know there was only one way Dorothy on the Golden Girls could make Sophia behave. She simply said, "Shady Pines, Ma, Shady Pines."

15.You've actually tasted New Coke. Extra points if you wrote to Coca-Cola and insisted they bring back the original formula.

16.You remember when there was no such thing as CNN, E!, or MTV.

17.Your parents were afraid you'd cut yourself putting on a snap bracelet.

18.You were inspired by Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court Judge, Sally Ride, the first female astronaut and Geraldine Ferraro, the first (and as of this writing only) female Vice Presidential candidate.

19.Renting horror movie sequels about Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers took up a lot of your time.

20.You loved the opposite sketches and green slime on You Can't Do That On Television.

21.You played Atari, Intellivision, Sega, Nintendo, and Coleco until your hands went numb.

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