Strange

Some things humans do just seem strange to me. I don't know why we do some of the things we do - we just seem to do them for no reason. For instance, when Lenin died and we were shown pictures of hundreds of thousands of people lined up to walk past and view his body I thought "don't those people have something better to do?"


As far as I've been able to determine Lenin is still dead. His body hasn't moved of it's own accord and he is still dead. Princess Dina's funeral and cult-like following a few years later produced greater crowds of people trying to get a glimpse of her dead body.

Now, Lenin was an atheist, and those who "worshiped" him were as well. So, I would imagine the only hope they had was either that his ideas would live long after him (some of them do and are embodied in the politicians in Washington DC) or perhaps he would come back to life. But, by default that is out of the question because he and they claimed there is no after-life. So, I can't figure out what all the looking at his dead body is all about.

What is really strange, however, is the idea that so-called Christians would believe there is some benefit to be gained by watching a dead body or in this case the grave of a dead person. Liberty University has a Web-cam streaming live video of Jerry Falwell's grave 24/7. Christians, by default, are supposed to believe that when a person dies his body rots and returns to dust but that his soul is with the Lord. So why in the mind of any thinking Christian would this be thought to be something Christians are supposed to waste God's resources on? The money could be sent to A Place of Hope Africa orphanage in Nigeria where it would feed, clothe, and house some of God's neediest children.



But, then, a Church which builds this kind of "memorial" - eternal flame and all - for a dead man, probably has issues other than using a webcam so that the world can watch a pile of dirt in which is housed a decaying body.

Somethings are just to too strange to comprehend: This is one of them.