Nothing is set in stone

Walking through the grounds of Bradford cathedral this afternoon My partner asked me about the stone slabs we walked on (as they had inscriptions on them) and he didn't want to be disrespectful of the dead.

I explained these were actually old gravestones of the long forgotten dead that had been (at some point in the past) utilised as paving stones to make a path around the cathedral but the bodies were long gone.

This started me thinking...

Even the things we take to be the most permanent, the gravestones, the mountains, the monuments are ground to dust and disappear into a long forgotten past that no one ever remembers.

The past graves, no longer visited, of the long forgotten dead are innumerable and we shall all join them, the anonymous dead.

In another ten thousand years we will be lost even to our own ancestors.

The comfort i draw on is I suspect time to be an illusion and although there is no life after death our lives exist as they always have and always will recorded onto the fabric of the universes memory, like a DVD or tape (from our perspective there seems to be a beginning a middle and an end but in the mind of God the tape has played & can be played again).

Our whole lives encased in time, like bees trapped in amber.

We went into the cathedral and listened to the choir practice which was sublime & beautiful as was the interior of the cathedral, the beautiful stained glass windows & architecture were wonderful...

This started me thinking...

Can something which is a lie still be beautiful?

Can so much nonsense be beautiful?

Beautiful nonsense?

I am agnostic when it comes to the existence of a God but when it comes to organised religion I'm an atheist.

There is hardly a shred of evidence that the man they call Jesus ever existed (only one small mention by one historian writing at the time and this is thought to have been doctored at a later date).

You'd think that such monumental goings on (especially the crucifixion - lights & the earth shaking etc) would be recorded somewhere outside of the bible (no - nothing!).

No evidence of Jesus as a person but...

There is a lot of evidence that Jesus is an amalgamation of a variety other mythical figures (The Persian God Mithra for one) and he is in fact a revamped pagan sun God.

All these others (Suns of God) had much in common with Jesus, 12 disciples, born of a virgin, performing miracles, rose from the dead etc etc

Once you start to read history the Jesus mythology becomes much clearer.

I don't speak of this to my partner unless pushed, he's a Christian!