Undercover Agnostic (Update 5): Twisting History Beyond All Recognition

Another Sunday, another week as the Undercover Agnostic. As I was driving into church, as usual, I had St. Louis rock station 105.7 The Point on the radio, and sometimes the music playing can be rather ironic for the situation, as I talked about in the last Undercover Agnostic update, Musical Irony and Political Activism. This week's song while driving into church was rather fitting, I think.

It was the band Fall Out Boy: "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark", the subtitle is "Light Them Up". As I listened to the song, and that repeating chorus of "Light them up, up, up", I was thinking that's what I want to do to my past, and the life I currently have now, light it up, burn it down, completely burn it up and start over again, even though it will be hard to start over again like that.

The song was especially fitting in light of my post on Saturday about my fears of moving forward, and how will I rebuild my life after coming out. I was genuinely surprised and overwhelmed by the reaction to that post, 312 views so far, and 10 comments of support. Thanks everyone for your encouragement and advice.

Anyway, back to my life now. A new quarter means a new Sunday School book, the old book is out, and this quarter has two books it's based off of. This first half is by a pastor named John Stott, who died in 2010. The book is called The Cross of Christ, and the weekly lesson plans are based off of it.

What really stood out to me was it's portrayal of Pilate, it casts him in a negative light, which is not at all surprising, because he is basing his writings off of the crucifixion story in the Gospels.