Alabaster Is A Gemstone

The Gay Letters, Feb. 15, 2021

    I've never been to seminary or school of theology.  I am a priest/priestess however; because I am Christiannan.  The first Christiannan.  But I am also a virtual priest/priestess.  I'm not talking about a video game here.  And so I can speak to you here that I have a calling to it.

    This is a decision I made, to call myself a priest/priestess of the Christianna.  Why?  I liked the aesthetic of a robe of beauty for a male or female leader of a chvrch.  Just a simple garb.  Without any frills.  Blue.  But it was also a decision I made because I thought that Christianity needed to end or at least just include me in its acceptance of other religions.  There cannot be only one world religion.

    So why call myself a priest/priestess?  A priest/priestess is a devotee or minister of practice.  They preach.  And so, by calling myself a priest/priestess of the Christiannan religion, I mean to preach.

    From a sanctuary.

    Oh, if I could only show you what it looks in my mind!; that I cannot explain the clear light shining through the prayer windows, or the alabaster, or the lectern.

Alabaster

    If Satan came here right now it would say damn, you fine!

    And that's saying a' because Satan is a heavy critic.

    It's just three things of alabaster.

    But when I stand here I feel like a high priestess.  Or a high priest.  Like OMG, right?  What would be so pretty about my sanctuary for me to be-preach to an audience of readers like yourselves?  It's not like I've even developed a style of preaching yet.  I don't want to sound like Christian preachers.  But I guess that it is in writing is one difference so far.  Okay, there are probably tons of Christian blogs out there that preach in writing, but nobody cares because I am a Christiannan and I have something interesting to say in writing that is queerer.

    The Christiannan God toys with us.  Not in a manipulative sort of way.  It's more like the opposite.  I mean we have free will so this is the ultimate way of toying with reality really.  Probably.  Of course.

    The Christiannan God amazes us.  We are subjects with unique gifts, experience, and property that we owe thanks to God for.  We can literally use any verb other than the form of the verb to be to describe God.  To be/is/was are all the same verb.  We gain something different.

    The Christiannan God, said to be the God of our presence here on Earth, the same God as all the Great world religions, we honor their contributions to history here.  Global civilization and religion are intangibly connected because all religions have something to honor.

    What does it mean to be a Global citizen?  Perhaps the acceptance of virtual churches (chvrches) or proto-chvrches such as the Naenaeon can be part of globalization.  The Naenaeon is LGBTπ affirming, teaching the acceptance of everybody as a mortal substance that deserves to transcend the fate worse than death.

    God means to help us overcome the fate worse than death but he or she is more of a scientist than probably we had imagined in centuries past.

    I also want to preach on the subject of surpassing Love as a virtue.

    We tend to think of Love as an ideal and then we fail to look beyond it because it is supposed to be the supreme good.  But we need to look past it because there are virtues and philosophies far beyond love that are superior and deserved to the species that gains them.  Why not dream the big dream and lead us on to forever?

    Merge with God in order to save God.

    Remember, Nyclepi is a virtue beyond love where, unimpressed with God and ourselves we seek to merge with the creator in order to boast—at first—and then to create anew.  A reality where laughter is always in the serendipity.  Or a play where we are superior to God and each other at times, admitted by the Creator/Creatoress itself, and shared between us a Performance of these interplaying superiorities and inferiorities that have never caused the Creator/Creatoress to stop loving us.

    Remember, everyone deserves kindness.

    I say I am a priest/priestess but I am not a fool.

    I know clowning is the opposite of preaching.  I can clown whenever I want to.  And I can be serious when I want to.

    So let's be serious for a moment.

    This is a gemstone.  Look deeply into it's blue sections.  Let it be powerful.  It is an object, rare, perfect, beautiful.  Now assess your value system.  If you value a gemstone more than me then you fail the moral of this letter.  

    "What if it was a gift than ended a period of war?"

    "It's just a rock.  Get over it."

    "Are you saying?"

    "Yes.  I am saying people are more valuable.  We must care for each other."

    "That's ridiculous."

    "Why?"

    "I take care of myself.  Why can't they take care of theirselves?"

    "They probably can.  But that's not the same thing.  You see, you hold a product that is yours alone that they can't get from anywhere else.  Everyone does."

    "Ya."

    "What do you mean ya?"

    "I mean, I know that dummy.  I already knew that.  Thanks.  Thanks for assuming that I didn't."

    "And you're not going to share your product with them?"

    "Who?"

    "Whoever you want!"

    "You mean it's my decision?"

    "Yes."

    "So why are you disconveniencing me that you won't take care of yourself?"

    "I can't help it."

    "Well I can't neither."