So I took Paul to the movies today. He has been waiting for so long for this one movie to come out, and he wanted it to be where we went for our special "date".
I was a bit skeptical because, whil he has read all the "Percy Jackson" books, the movie "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" is marketed as a teen movie, and well, it is rated PG-13.
I thought we would try it. We could always leave.
Well, the special effects were stunning enough that, between a substitute teacher that turns into a very realistic demon-type thing, a monstrous and ill tempered Minotaur, and Hades in a bon-fire, Paul was done in before the first half was over.
Just as we were getting to the part where the heroes meet Medusa, he said "We should go", jumped up and he was out of there!
However, there was one very interesting line in the dialog that caught my attention, and may explain a lot of the mysteries of our times.
The best friend of our hero Percy, is a Satyr by the name of Grover. In one part of the movie, he is filling Percy in on the "facts of life" as they apply to a world inhabited and overseen by the Greek gods of mythology.
You see, as it turns out they really weren't myths. They are actually ruling the world even today.
Of course they still "get around", as always, so there are apparently a certain number of demigods, "half bloods" running around and they have all these amazing powers.
So...Grover tells Percy that there are hundreds of them, they are in all walks of life, even famous people, even "the White House". I kid you not. He really said that.
Now this would actually explain a lot of things.
See, I could never buy the whole "Messiah" thing because well, I know who that is and it ain't Obama.
But the Greek demi-god angle actually makes a whole bunch of sense.
For one thing, the whole missing father thing. Yeah, I know there is a father that was apparently showing up off and on. Demigods seldom know their dads, because the gods are always up on Olympus or out carousing.
The birth certificate? Nope, not for a demi-god.
Another thing...the Greek gods are notoriously selfish and egotistical.
I asked Paul who the most proud and egotistical god that he could think of was and he said Hermes, the god of roads and thieves...now does that sound like anyone you know?
So...since we have a guy in the White House who desperately craves deification, this is the perfect opportunity to feed his fantasy.
He can believe what he wants, and he will anyway, and we know it's not true. Perfect.
I'm just glad that our God is the One, True God.
So good that we don't have to depend on those Greek guys...
