This presidential election is so implausible as to defy making rational sense of it, but does remind me of studies having to do with “Zombie parasites of the brain.” Apart from such scientific studies, seemingly from out of nowhere Barack Hussein Obama appears from a shadowy, dubious and questionable background and those investigators not turned into Hussein Zombies are labeled “racist” for questioning his blatant lack of credentials and qualifications for the presidency, so utterly lacking in these as to be ridiculous if it were anyone but a Negro that university spawned political correctness has made sacrosanct and untouchable.

Even more implausible is his being treated like a rock star by the MSM and touted a “great speaker” despite his obviously not being anything approaching such unwarranted praise, even seeming dim-witted, haltingly searching for words with insulting verbal pauses of “uh, uh,” when he speaks. To add to the irrationality of all this is his having said absolutely nothing of substance while the MSM touts his agenda of “change” never addressing any specifics of what he means by this glittering generality apart from a Marxist redistribution of wealth!

But what is known about Hussein’s associations with those like Ayers, Wright, and ACORN being the black equivalent of a white supremacist with an Aryan Brotherhood connection would disqualify any Caucasian contender. In my opinion only Satan could so successfully pull this off to advance his choice of Hussein. Only the Evil One has the power using the tools at his disposal like the universities, MSM and Hollywood to accomplish something so sinister that seems like a bad work of fiction. But I remind myself Satan owns those in power able to hide the truth about so many things like JFK and 9/11, and he is able to advance someone like Hussein to serve his purpose having laid the groundwork already through the universities and the administration of Caesar Bush.

To add to this being such a zany and implausible election where are the real issues being addressed, the things that are tearing America apart like our open borders and the millions of illegal aliens and drugs invading our nation at taxpayer expense? What about English as our national language, holding those accountable for the mortgage meltdown and banker bailouts, and this betrayal of “Press one for English”? Other than Marxist socialism it doesn’t seem either candidate has any answers to America’s meltdown, but taking Governor Palin at her word the election is in God’s hands I turn to the Bible in an attempt to make any sense of what is going on.

From the outset I considered Governor Sarah Palin a glimmer of hope on the political scene. But from the Biblical perspective she is up against the subservient position of women in the Bible by God’s decree beginning with Eve. Removed from anything Biblical, removed from anything of the supernatural and metaphysical it seems to me McCain made a wise choice in Governor Palin. However, from a Biblical perspective while some condemn her for fundamentalist Bible beliefs how did she manage to pursue a course in her life that led to political eminence of leadership including having authority over men counter to such beliefs? In its own way this is as much a mystery as that of Hussein.

In an America where the value of women is gauged primarily by their youth and sexual attractiveness Governor Palin offers quite a Biblical conundrum for believers. It is the weakest part of “The Da Vinci Code” to entertain the notion Jesus would ever intend a woman to lead the church, though as fiction it had to make sense. However, here we are in reality having a woman positioned to lead America should events fall out in a certain way becoming a truth stranger than fiction.

The utter implausibility of this election cycle including McCain/Palin emphasizes what most writers know, that the difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction has to make sense. This is somewhat of an oversimplification of what is a very complex idea, but as a general rule it has broad applications of validity based on the fact that much of the reality of life makes little sense and the novelist must tweak the many nonsensical realities of life, “A tale told by an idiot,” in order to produce a fiction that makes sense causing the writer to resort to many a literary device and taking license in order to make the thread of the tale hold throughout.

Just reflecting on my own life much of it seems a tale told by an idiot, and is best done by moonglow or candlelight to sort things out. At that some questions that come to me in soft light have some very hard edges difficult to smooth by reason alone in the bright light of day, one such being the love of God.

God; do you love me? Have you ever taken the time to ask yourself with the utmost seriousness and contemplation whether God loves you? Just ask him straight out: God; do you love me? Apart from the question generally never being asked of God by most people, there are a host of reasons why many people would fear to ask even if it occurred to them to do so, many fearful of what they believe the answer would be because of a litany of sins.

Of equal importance is the question of whether a person loves God? The only answer I have to the question is in the love I have for others. As I commune with loved ones gone on before me I rely on their love for me and mine for them to cover a multitude of sins, this is my only hope of salvation since I believe this is how God will judge me in the hereafter. But I speak of unconditional love, the kind of love that sacrifices with no sense of sacrifice. In this I have much in common with the beliefs of many people regardless of their system of beliefs, whether orthodox or unorthodox, and I believe this is the essence of the teachings of Jesus and Paul’s marvelous summation of love in I Corinthians chapter thirteen, that of faith, hope, and love, the greatest of these being love.

It is the unconditional love we share for one another that transcends the bounds of my earthly existence and holds me in close communion with those I love gone on before me. Without this love as Paul affirms, though I need no such affirmation knowing in my soul the truth of this, I am nothing, I have nothing. And Paul together with the other writers of the New Testament knew that without this love there can be no faith or hope, certainly no faith or hope of salvation and the only thing that makes any sense of a life that would otherwise in many instances be only a tale told by an idiot.

But to love unconditionally is not without its discipline, and even as the loving parent disciplines their child so God disciplines us. This never comes to mind but what I turn to the story in Genesis and God’s discipline of Adam and Eve, and especially the many questions arising from trying to make sense of why the curse should fall so heavily on Eve? God condemned Adam for listening to Eve, and condemned Eve for being beguiled by the serpent into disobedience. But Adam would seem to be attempting to justify himself by blaming both God and Eve for his own disobedience. However, Paul is quite adamant in I Timothy chapter two concerning the judgment of God and the resulting role of women in submitting to this.

There is no other collection of writings comparable to the Bible, and it is for this reason that despite the large body of literature surrounding the events described in the opening chapters of Genesis I continue to credit it as my primary resource; and as such the role of the serpent in The Fall as described is of great importance. The New Testament would lead us to believe the serpent was Satan, and it was his hatred of the Adam reflected in the book of Job and elsewhere that led to his part in The Fall. If God’s curse of Satan for the part he played resulted in the serpent being representative of the Evil One then the natural abhorrence most people have for snakes notwithstanding the fascination some have for the creatures is easily understandable and they serve a figurative purpose.

But in the council of gods as I take it to mean by the phrasing “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” it seems quite possible to me that there must have been allowance for the possibility of The Fall to occur. There are interpretations of two seeming accounts of the creation of Adam and Eve with several resulting mythologies, and early Hebrew scholars together with later Christian scholars have made many attempts to reconcile these. Nevertheless the serpent’s choice to approach Eve rather than Adam is a mystery. But having succumbed to the serpent’s wiles in disobedience to God the woman would become the weaker vessel, made to endure the primacy of men and suffering childbirth, needing the strength of a man to protect and provide for her despite the anecdotal incidents to the contrary. It remains a man’s world despite the several efforts of women to counter this; all of which brings me back to the mystery of the relationship between the serpent and Eve, a mystery I admit causes me no little trepidation to intrude myself into.

A part of the curse of God upon Eve was pronouncing as the Hebrew allows “You are going to be humbled (even degraded) as to need a man!” And historically this has proven to be so, even though in many cases a woman has needed a man just to protect her from other men. But this has had the result of women harboring resentment toward men, an unhappy situation for both men and women all of which makes no small contribution to life seeming a tale told by an idiot.

There are tantalizing parts of the Bible together with mythologies that lead back in time to something between Eve and the serpent that I believe would explain many of the mysteries of ancient civilizations, their monuments and artifacts. However, sex has been a curse falling largely upon women, not the least part of this curse being once a woman has lost her youth she no longer has any chance of attracting the needed man in her life whereas men continue to have value in most cultures into much older age. That this seems to be such an unfair result of God’s judgment the only possible explanation would have to come from knowing the facts of the relationship between Eve and the serpent in the Garden. Mythologies abound, but the Bible does not offer much in the way of explanation and we are left with trying to make sense of why God’s judgment fell so heavily upon Eve, why God’s decree became that of men having the rule while women suffer disproportionately both physically and culturally from men.

I consider the dinosaurs to be a satanic creation, something God had to wipe out to make earth hospitable to Adam and Eve. I believe the earth at the time of Adam and Eve to be a single land mass surrounded by ocean and the Deluge created the different continents. But the history of evil Satan represents had to have begun long before the special creation of Adam and Eve made in the image of God, a special creation Satan hated and attempted to destroy and from this the many different mythologies attempting to explain Good vs. Evil emanated.

For those such as myself who take the Bible to be literally true in many instances, who believe there are actual facts behind the stories of Genesis and Creation there remains the enigma of Governor Sarah Palin at this point in American history. It is of great interest to me to see how this election plays out, and just how much of it may have to do with my own ideas of Biblical prophecy and the role of women in God’s scheme of things. As things stand, the choices in this election would seem to be between a tale told by an idiot or something that only makes sense within the difference between fiction and non-fiction.