Perspectives

I was struck by how conventional we get when we think of our Christmas greetings.  Even the flash mob video of the Hallelujah chorus being sung in an American shopping mall is just a variation on the usual.  So are all the variations we find within the Christian traditions which litter our planet and having had to read some books on the development of the concept of salvation and atonement the other day for a paper I was writing, reminded me of just how much nit-picking argument and disagreement there has been, and still is, over what so often seems to be either irrelevant or blinkered detail. Like all the best pieces of electrical equipment I sometimes think that what we need is a reset button.  So the picture above is my attempt at a reset button. The main picture is not of stars but of galaxies, in the centre is a picture of a star-forming region of our own galaxy; the eagle nebula is there because it looks nice and then there is our own earth.  If it was all to scale, our plan