On Zombies...

So whats the deal with the whole apprentice zombie malarkey, I hear you ask?

Zombies are great creatures if you ask me. They do have a slightly bad rep, what with all the brain eating and mayhem - this I must concede. The bible, however, teaches that God looks deeper than the flesh. Zombies mean more to me than 120 minute shots of splatter cinema.

1. Myth; there is life before death - The greatest tragedy of all the ages is that the dead actually believe they live! Caught in the proto-hell of consumerism, pseudo spirtuality, nihlism and countless other cruel expressions of ongoing self-immolation, they wander aimlessly. Their god is their stomach, their glory is in their shame.
2. Zombies are the waking dead - those who have shared in the death, burial and ressurection of Christ have been revived from the state of true death. We walk this earth as an affront to the so-called 'natural' order (this sin swelled, cursed creation, falling ever further from its Fathers grace).
3. Zombies are dead to the world - The living dead have no interest in the things of their pre-dead counterparts (the REAL dead - see #1). Although our corpse may rot, our spirit is truly alive. We feast on the flesh and blood of the Living One - He who holds the keys to death - Christ the King.
4. Zombies decay - As soon as I was born (again), I began to die. In our case, death is a progressive condition as we learn to let go of this world and embrace our end. Our flesh, with all its greed and selfish lusts, diminishes daily as we shuffle from this mortal coil.

So there we go - a zombie theology 101. We are left with this daily choice: will we get busy living, or get busy dying?