From the House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

When I was in the doghouse, I wrote in my mind that one day Colonel Garcia would stand before me in defeat and that I would avenge myself on all those who need to be avenged. But now I have begun to question my own hatred. Within a few short weeks, ever since I returned to the house. it seems to have become diluted, to have lost its sharp edge.

I am beginning to suspect that nothing that happens is fortuitous, that it all corresponds to a fate laid down before my birth, and that Esteban Garcia is part of the design. He is a crude, twisted line, but no brushstroke is in vain.
(emphasis mine)

The day my grandfather tumbled his grandmother, Pancha Garcia, among the rushes of the riverbank, he added added another link to the chain of events that had to complete itself. Afterward the grandson of the woman who was raped repeats the gesture with the granddaughter of the rapist, and perhaps forty years from now my grandson will knock Garcia's granddaughter down among the rushes and so on down through the centuries in an unending tale of sorrow, blood, and love.

homosexuality and sin

Another thought I have about homosexuality is that it is a sin- but that is not relevant to whether or not someone should be queer. Going to church is a ssin for Muslims, celebrating Halloween is a sin. It is a sin to not live a genuine life in that it is dishonest creates misery betrays integrity of the human person.

So why focus on it?

The reason I see is the concept that people are gay and proud. This I think conflicts with cultural expectations of heterosexist society to cover things that aren't perfectly in acccordance with the Bible or Qur'an. It makes sense that being gay and proud is a direct reaction to heterosexism andd is a way to take proactive measures agaisnt heterosexism because as a concept it resists seeing homosexuality as in any way wrong.

thoughts on theories of sexual misconduct

The obsession with homosexuaality/bisexuaality/queerness generally is a neurosis that seems unjustified if you look at the Bible. Fornication seems like it is more of a priority and is mentioned over 100 times, while homosexuality is mentioned under 10 times. Aside from homophobia being bad for everyone in society because of setting a standard of limiting civil rights and freedom, promoting intolerance and closed-mindedness, self-righteousness, rigid constructs of gender that define and confine women to a class of domestic servants who bear children in the service of men who determine the course of society, the unacceptability of hate, homosexuality does not look like a to priority to God. Promiscuity as a principle looks like aa much more serious concern. So why don't we as a society privilege chastity over promiscuity not heterosexuaality over homosexuality.

about.com and a few comments of types of angels

Functions of the Angels
The angels can be divided into three group of three, a trinity of trinities. The lowest group, comprised of Angels, Archangels and Principalities, are charged with communicating God’s will to humanity, with Principalities governing princes and nations; Archangels caring for sacred things and functioning as messengers between God, the angelic hierarchy, and humanity; and Angels acting as personal guardians.

The middle order, composed of Dominions, Virtues, and Powers, regulates divine governance. They are not interested in human affairs.

The highest order, consisting of Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones, is entirely focused upon God, eternally contemplating and praising him.


Other Names
The Angelic or Empyrean realm is sometimes referred to by a variety of other names such as the Supercelestial, Divine, Religious, Pythagorean or Intellectual realm. Human intellect is seen as superior to all other functions within humans, thus the association.