Sunday, January 29, 2017

Which Reminds Me

Yes, personally I wouldn't base all my theology on a fictional story written by Salarrué even though he is a very famous author in El Salvador. Sometimes it is better not to put a famous author's personal foibles under a microscope lest you find an unpleasantly unexpected surprise. I mean, another well-known short story he wrote tells of a Mayan Indian crucified, literally, physically, as the Black Christ, but that is also a fictional tale, although who can say whether there was some kernel of truth about that somewhere in the distant past on which to base a fictional piece, not to mention the Catholic relics of Guatemala, but we are Protestants so we don't pay too much attention to that. That said, there is no reason to imagine that we ever had access to the Family Feud records of the Bueno family until you recently started playing them online. Oh, I didn't know that. It is my opinion that you cannot use a fictional story to convict me of a fictional crime so just breaking records will not solve this problem. That would be wrong. That just won't fly in a court of law, one would think. We knew that they had previously lived many years in Chile but they had not discussed with us the border conflicts of 19th century Argentina and its variant street language permutations. So obviously it really wasn't about them. I don't even remember what it was about other than the beautiful scenery enjoyed on a nature hike.