I am quite sure that I will feel the wrath of most who read this but I have never shied away from things that I think to be funny, informative, or controversial. One thing that should be mentioned as a preface is that I grew up in a house full of women and no men at all. This has always offered me an interesting perspective in regards to male/female relations and most of the time it has benefited me. Maybe not so much in the posting of this humour, or outrage, depending on which beam of light your prism shines.

One thing to keep in mind is that I do not condone or deny the viewpoints of anyone mentioned in this recollection of listening.

Sunday mornings always provide some fabulous morning radio moments on the AM dial, especially here in Southern California where all things (including religion) take their bizarre sunshine twist of fault lines and consumerism. Any of you who have read my blogs, since I started almost two years ago, know where I stand on politics and religion and you also know that I was and am a HUGE talk radio fan.

All day long for about five years I listened to the Los Angeles based KFI 640 AM. They broadcast local shows, as well as big name syndicated programmes such as Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura Schlessinger. I enjoyed these programmes for many different reasons but also enjoyed the local big names such as John and Ken and Bill Handel. Some of the lesser listened to shows also grabbed my ear and occupied my time as I laughed, cried and thought deeply about what was being conveyed across the sometimes staticy airwaves of the forgotten dial. Don’t get me wrong, Coast To Coast has always been an over night favourite, but I found Wayne Reznick and Jon Zeigler just as entertaining, if not more.

This brings me to my favourite Sunday morning activity, if I am awake early enough. Now that I have my truck and I drive home very early in the morning from a long night off at work, I find that this show is in my ‘drive time’ commute back home. It is listening to ‘The Jesus Christ Show’. Originally, KFI only gave this show an hour on Sunday morning which has now risen to a whopping three hours from 6 a.m. to 9a.m. every Sunday. Today I was blessed with a great moment of radio mixed with theology and this is why I love the show. Let me first tell you about the programme in general.

On the show’s main web page, the description of it’s three hours is as follows: “Tune in this Sunday morning to find out why the young and old from all over the world listen (via the internet & radio) for answers to life's toughest questions. Hosted by Jesus Christ and produced by Neil Saavedra.” Yep, that about sums it up. A D.J. posing as Jesus himself answers calls and e-mails and helps people through their problems and theological quandaries. It sounds really ridiculous and blasphemous but it really, REALLY, is not - I promise! Here is a link to the main page and it links to various aspects of the show:

http://www.kfi640.com/pages/JesusChrist.html?feed=128001&article=444961

So, today I happen to catch it late and was listening during the 8 - 8:30 half hour. I caught a call around 8:13 from a man named Alexander who had found faith in Christ in 1995 and was a devout Christian ever since. Later in the call we find out he has been married to his wife for 6 months and they and previously dated for about 18 months prior to the nuptials. He insists that they have a completely open and honest relationship of mutual respect and growth. Alexander’s problem was with the book of Genesis and what follows after the sixth day. Ahhh, yes, something for us all to take a bite of apple over … huh, huh?!?!?!?

Ok. Enough comic relief and to the point of this post beyond possibly turning you onto the show. His question comes after he goes through the story of man’s creation and gets to the whole jig and gig about woman being created. This is where the whole phone call becomes almost absurd or obscene. Alexander interprets the Bible’s talk of God’s creating of Woman as a means to solely ‘entertain’ Man. Mmmmm … a much different school of thought from most I know, especially anyone talking about woman/man relations publicly. Bless radio!

This leads Alexander to pose the question: “Was Woman really created by the Devil in order to highlight the juxtaposition of good and evil and light and darkness; the contrasts of morality?” The whole time, our Holy Host (that is not a pun, but rather a phrase coined via the show) is in awe, almost in shock. This brings us to our 8:20 commercial break along with some traffic and, boy, was it needed!

So Jesus comes back from the break and begins to enlighten the rather confused Alexander about how Woman was created as a ‘half-meet’ of Man and that God’s intent was to have a being to help and compliment Man as an equal. This is why the host is in awe of this man’s confusion regarding his Father’s intent with Woman’s creation. The word ‘entertainment’ is obviously never used. Jesus even points out that animals would have been just fine if ‘entertainment’ were the cause to be rallied, as ‘chimps are awfully funny creatures to watch. Have you ever watched a chimp? Hours of fun!’.

This leads him to the flat out denial that the Devil has anything to do with Women in regard to how they came about. Yes, they do struggle with evil and temptation as much as Man, but when it come to how they arose Satan has not a finger in the pie!

Ok. So that is my Sunday morning.

Maybe good.

Maybe bad.

I suppose you will all let me know.

I will keep listening though.

The old Victrola (with tuner band) used to bring it to me, but those days are long gone.

I guess one good thing came out of me driving again, well, beyond being able to get to work.

Be good and smile.

Godspeed …