August 29, 2007
Flags
So the Russians have claimed the North Pole and planted their flag up there. I can’t imagine why they’d want to do something like that unless it reminds them so much of home or maybe Santa Claus. Perhaps time will tell. After all, we were so bold as to plant a flag on the moon. Apparently all you have to do is get somewhere and then plant a flag where nobody else has planted one, and you’re in. A flag under ice at the North Pole should be as good as one on the moon that has to be propped up for lack of any air to wave it. Like Ms Stein might have said, a flag is a flag is a flag. All this business about flags and constitutional amendments about flags and boundaries and borders and state lines seems altogether ludicrous to me, anyhow.
God never really signed Eden’s title over to Eve and Adam for anything more than sharecropping, although the reward for even that was more than the usual pay. When they couldn’t get that much straight, whatever lease they might have thought they had got terminated. It was God’s all along and still is, of course, the whole bumptious lot of it. It was only when Jesus redeemed it and then sent the Spirit to sweep out the left overs that we got promoted from sharecroppers to stewards, and that’s about it.
Like Adam and Eve and all through the millennia in between, we continue to confuse stewardship with ownership. Even that old attempt with Jubilee years never seemed to get it through to us that the land (aka creation) is God’s not ours, and that nobody’s an immigrant unless everybody is. So if there’re going to be any walls built or fences put up it’ll not be for people unless God does it.
Flags are nice and colorful and heraldic and salutable, but lets face it, they’re probably just an insult to God and nothing much more. For in the last analysis and in spite of any claims made otherwise, God is the Decider, not some lesser flag-waving satrap here or there with nothing more than what turn out to be delusions of grandeur.
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