I have been to Kolkata a few times now… streets packed with people, bikes, buses, taxi’s and, of course, the rickshaws.

I was always fascinated with the rickshaws, standing there watching the men pull various people around town in them. Before my first visit to India in 2004,
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Some questions have been asked as to what the symbol was next to my former blog on the top, and at the footer of the blog.

  Here’s the story…

Chi-Rho

“The Chi Rho is one of the earliest cruciform symbols used by Christians. It is formed by superimposing the first two letters of the word “Christ” in Greek, chi = ch and rho = r . Although not technically a cross, the Chi Rho invokes the crucifixion of Jesus as well as symbolizing his status as the Christ. The earliest evidence of the Chi Rho symbol is Constantine’s use of it on the labarum, the imperial standard, in the early 4th century CE. Lactantius, a 4th century Christian apologist, reports that on the eve of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 CE, Constantine had a vision of God in which he was commanded to mark his men’s shields with the Chi Rho symbol. After Constantine’s success at the Milvian bridge, the Chi Rho became the official imperial insignia. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence demonstrating that the Chi Rho was emblazoned on the helmet and shield of Constantine as well as those of all of his soldiers. Coins and medallions minted during Constantine’s reign also bore the Chi Rho. By the year 350 CE, the Chi Rho began to be used on Christian sarcophagi and frescoes. [A.E.M.] “  (Definition taken from the University of Rochester)

The Greek symbols on the left and right are Alpha & Omega.  The beginning and the end. In the Greek alphabet, in which the New Testament was written, alpha is the first letter and omega is the last. In the Book of Revelation, God says, “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last,” meaning that God remains from the beginning to the end of time.

The particular symbol images you’ve seen on my site (in the header/footer), I created from scratch using Photoshop.

Original article here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1686828,00.html

Ahh, the world never ceases to amaze me…  Time Magazine published an article in their December 3, 2007 issue titled, “Sunday School for Atheists.” 

As stated in the article, “…The lives of these young people would be much easier, adult nonbelievers say, if they learned at an early age how to respond to the God-fearing majority in the U.S. ‘It’s important for kids not to look weird,’ says Peter Bishop, who leads the preteen class at the Humanist center in Palo Alto.”  What?!  Can someone please tell me, since when, in this post-modern society we live in today, has being a ‘non-believer’ looked weird??!  I was really under the impression that now, more than ever in our lifetime, it’s almost preposterous for someone to believe in God.  At least that’s what general society is telling us more and more.  Our culture, as a whole, is now trying to push God out of everything in the United States, a nation that was founded on Christianity.  But let’s move on…

Humanist, or Humanism defined:
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Dr. Walid Al-Rashudi, head of the Department of Islamic Studies at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, was on an arabic tv station, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on February 29, 2008. Total absurdities came spewing out of his mouth, and I quote:

One of the important things that we must tell people is that what is going on in Palestine today is a real holocaust. This is the real holocaust. A holocaust is not the burning of 50-60 Jews in Germany or Switzerland,
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Photos Of India – Come see photography by Jason at Bead Beautiful – The Gallery this month! Located in downtown Denver in the main ‘Art District’. 985 Santa Fe Dr., Denver, Colorado.

This is a story I once heard.  I’m sure there are a few variations  of it going around, but the core principle I’m sure has remained the same:

Dwight L. Moody used to tell the story of the terrible train crash outside of the small town in the Colorado Rockies. It seems that the railroad trestle at the bottom of a long grade had washed away in a storm. 

One night, the railroad company telegraphed the station manager of the station farther up the hill to tell him about the washout, and told him to flash a red lantern to stop the train there so that the passengers could spend the night there.  It was the job of the station manager to wave a lamp to warn locomotive engineers of danger ahead on the railroad tracks. 

So that night, for some reason the train did not stop, but continued down the hill and off the tracks, into a ravine with great loss of lives.
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“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.”

Thomas Aquinas