religion

This guy's on television telling me about the first English translation of the Bible.  What a gorgeous object that it.  The pages are a couple of feet tall and it's all in painstaking handdone script with ornate borders and goldleaf.  I remember one time just for fun I did a search for "bible" on Ebay and there was all of these ancient copies that are hundreds of years old selling for thousands of dollars. 

Speaking of religion, I'm noticing that many, many of my recent conversations find their way to the place where Religion, Astronomy, Science, and Math all become the same subject.  Am I correct in believing that more and more of us young people are talking about this stuff or am I crazy?  I was saying today that my figurative concepts of Cosmology and Quantum Mechanics is like this: You could go up to the top of the universe and eventually go up and up and up and out your own mouth, or you could look through a microscope and zoom in and zoom in and zoom in until you're seeing yourself looking in a microscope. 

Last night I went to sleep thinking about how big the sun is.  Then with that in mind, how much bigger is the whole galaxy, or the stars in the middle of it since we're way out at the edge.  This is crazy!

Now that man on TV is telling me that the Catholic priests burned all the English bibles and hunted down the dudes making it!  It was all an underground posse running by night going "Yo, I translated it so now you can know God's word yourself instead of having to just trust the priest.  Word!"  History is fascinating.