Doctor Who and Theology 104

My life for the last few weeks has been fully absorb with being very annoyed with my first theology class. I know 4th graders who could pass this lame class. I honestly had to answer the question "In what way do some people equate God with a cosmic Easter bunny?" How seriously could you take this class, I am sure having a problem with it. My number one complaint is that this class seems to have one purpose and it is not a good one. The intention may have been good, an introductory class to cover the basics so that everyone is starting with the same basic concepts, but that is not what the end result is. Mainly because the bulk of that material the book that I purchased are written by Co-founder and dean of the school of religion. This guarantees a certain income for the dean every year. I would not mind if the writing was good, but it is rubbish. I was afraid it was me so I shared some of the pieces with friends and they could not make heads or tails of it either. My text book is full of circular logic and it presents as fact the authors opinion. The questions we are asked require us to spit out exactly what the books say no thought or talk about it just regurgitate what we have read. (I find this boring I like thinking and had expected to do so in this class) Because the author is the dean it means who do you complain to?

I am no longer taking this class seriously and sadly because there are things presented as fact that are not and in one case very wrong I am not taking anything I don't already know as truth. My tendency when bored is to amuse myself and with the last weeks assignments I found it difficult to give serious answers. The topic was Regeneration and I was sorely tempted to answer the process by which a Time Lord saves his life by changing every cell in his body. This allows the Time Lord to defeat death, his total appearance changes and his personality but in essence the same person. The process can leave the Time Lord a bit daft for a bit of time. I wonder what kind of grade I would have gotten on that answer. ;-)

To appease myself after the disappointment of my class I decided to rejoin a women's small group that I had been apart of in the past. I stopped going last year when they started a book by Joyce Myers and I didn't feel it was the study that God wanted me involved with at that time. Well they dropped her book and they have started Knowing God and I enjoyed our first meeting immensely. There was more meat and thought in our hour then in four weeks of my class. No urge to turn group into something more interesting like Dr Who.

I still find it interesting that a man with such a humanist point of view has added some many Christian symbols and parallels into his work. I have used Dr Who with more then one teen to launch a discussion on a Christian topic honestly it is one of the best small group tools I have come across in many years.

The rest of my week has involved me being rather ill. I have shingles and I don't feel very good, in fact I feel rather bad.

Kyrsten was home with baby Nate and I got to spend a bunch of time with them. We all headed off to the Big E Nate fully enjoyed his first Big E. When I get the photos I will share.
Ok that is enough for the night I need to go lay down.