December 1

     The altars of Pueblo churches in New Mexico display statues of Christ and ancestral deer mounts, side by side. This works for them and it works for me. I don't believe that Christ or Buddha intended for their teachings about compassion to supplant the poetic understanding of nature which the ancient tribal religions provide. Unfortunately politics reared it's ugly head. We have a prohibition against the church interfering with politics. We would have been better off,  a couple of thousand years ago, if that prohibition had gone the other way.