It’s a memorial to Texans who died in WWII.
I was teasing you GunRunner :). With the slightly tilted upward camera shot showing your robust physique it just popped into my mind! You’d make a great model for a Greek or Roman god!
As for myself: Once you absorb the unique teaching of Jesus as compared to the other Pagan religions of his day, the virgin birth comparisons are meaningless.
I am not aware of any deity in Pagan religions that showed the sort of love that Jesus did for his enemies. That begged God the Father to forgive those who tortured and killed Him.
No other religion has transformed the world in such a positive way. All that is good in this world was due to the teachings of Jesus that men have taken to heart. The counter-movement via Islam and governmental secularists have led to all sorts of evils.
These are some of the personal reasons I have for maintaining my faith in the historical and divine Jesus. The story is so fantastic and loving it defies any human ability to create.
We take His teachings for granted in today’s world. I liken it to showing the innovative car chase sequence in Bullitt to my wife. She said, “It looks like every other car chase scene”. I told her, “that’s because every other car chase scene COPIED this one!”
See Christianity is like that. Society has absorbed part of its value system of love so much that we forget what times looked like in the Pagan days. We only have to look at places like China, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc... to be reminded of a world without Christ.
And as we watch the Western world fall away from the limits that Christian love sets (love no evil) we see how the West slowly is falling.
I’m sorry if it sounds like a sermon! But the love I have for Him is so great it makes me ramble at times. LOL.