Quaker Pagan Reflections: Sea Glass (and video)
And here is why I read the Quaker Pagan blogs.
“Talking to the wrong Jesus.” Here I am, a non-Christian, sometimes feeling like a poor, orphaned relative among the Christians of the world, apologizing, explaining, translating… And there’s Alan, one of the most sincere and serious Christians I know, equally dismissed, equally marginalized.
For talking to the “wrong Jesus.”
I could not decide, in that moment, whether those words were more funny or sad. But they’re both, really, aren’t they?
The wrong Jesus. The wrong Zeus, the wrong Demeter, the wrong Allah, the wrong theology, ontology, hermeneutics, philosophics, harmonics, recipe for sweet golden Hannukah latkes… Oh, dear sweet Ground of All Being, how we humans dearly love to draw our little lines around your limitlessness and fence you off and take You (and one another) hostage. There it was: the tragedy and the comedy of being human and trying to love God and one another, all sewed into one small sentence.
Particularly apt words for me, having been dogpiled by literalist fundies on the ex-member boards lately, just because I don’t “talk to [the right] Jesus”.
But! According to YouTube, it’s a flamewar that has been going on for two centuries at least!
Prodigal Valentine 
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