-still sick of it-

last weekend at church the guy filling for dave read a sermon about the signature of god. it started with 2 baseballs. one had nothing on it...so it was used in games...thrown in the dirt...whatever..at the end of the day if the ball was lost or thrown away no one would care. there was another baseball that was locked in a case...why was it locked in a case? cause it was signed by hank aaron. this is a ball that is worth something. it will never be used in a game...never thrown in the dirt...and if it were lost or thrown away...fits would be thrown. anyways. same ball...but one is worth a ton more because of the signature on it.

he went on to say that people are all worth a ton because we are all signed by god. we are all created in his likeness. it was kind of a feel good sermon i guess. but it left me feeling a little weird. there was a point where he suggested that if we cant see the signature of god on people that we are being prideful, arrogant, self righteous, religious, etc.

my thoughts...when a man on a bus looks over at the guy next to him...sees that hes sleeping...pulls out a knife...stabs him repeatedly, beheads him...uses his head to taunt the other terrified passengers...cuts off parts of the dead mans flesh and eats it... ummm. i dont see the signature of god on this man. i just flat out do not. am i being arrogant in saying that? self-righteous?

the dead man was 22...a husband and a father...on his way home from working a carnival. working to support his family, tired enough to sleep on a bus...and he gets stabbed, beheaded and eaten by a stranger. and for what? for nothing. a random act by a psychopath. "mommy when is daddy coming home?"..can you even imagine those conversations? can you even imagine what you would feel? i can hardly even imagine this happening.

i can not doubt creation. but what im wondering now...how far did humanity fall? did we fall far enough to lose that originial signature? cause i do not see it in or on a lot of people. i see it in nature. i see it on newborn babies.. i see it in friends and family. but i do not see it in this kind of violent men. i do not see it in people who harrass a teenage girl and then fracture the skull of the girls father when he stands up for her. i do not see it on 40 year old men who kidnap, rape and kill 5 year old girls. on these men i see a different signature. am i being self-righteous in saying that? am i being arrogant?