They reviled him..

Why do people feel it necessary to prove things that other people believe are wrong? Okay, I do that, I know. But, like matters of faith. I've watched scientists try to disprove or explain many of the well known Bible stories. Who funds that research? Isn't there something to dedicate your life to that IMPROVES the world somehow?

I belong to a message board (yes, unlike some people I play well with others and haven't been banned, yet :P ) that has a board dedicated to religion. I'm mostly wise enough to stay away from it and the one on politics (mostly) and the atheists are there always spreading their good cheer. I have nothing against atheists except why are they on a religion board? So I look up what they say is how they got here (I say "they" because God put ME here)actually spend some time reading the more believable theories. Every one of them needs a "spark" an unknown energy source to even come up with some facsimile of DNA.

In a season of magic, it's difficult to be around people who feel reality is a necessity. I think we need magic and we need miracles.

I'm reading a book called Hallelujah obviously about Handel though it's a novel and fictionalized. Soooooo GOOD! But I was looking around and came across a thing about Handel. "Researchers" finding out that all we think we know about Handel may NOT be true. He began with saying that Handel didn't write the Messiah for Christmas time, it was performed during Lent. Okay the Messiah is timeless. It's the past, the present, and the future. It spans the birth, the life, the ministry, the crucifixion, and the resurrection of Christ. When is that NOT relevant. Not to mention that MOST everyone knows that he was actually born in the spring. I stopped reading the article immediately. I've sang in the Messiah 5 years. Not a year goes by that I don't learn something new about Handel from the music. His artistry is unbelievable as I've mentioned in previous posts. And IN all these years I've known from my interest in Handel that he was painfully human, with real problems, real emotions, and real faults. That makes the music THAT much more incredible to me. If at the end of every person's life there was any small thing that makes the world a better place because of their contribution it would be a beautiful thing. I wouldn't want mine to be the destruction of magic, of faith, of inspiration. Yet there are those who will continue to do so throughout their lives. Sad.