Mind you, I am not opposed to dressing up and screaming as loud as you can about reconciling the bible with real life. We get that a lot in the states, and I actually find it more entertaining than television. You kill as many brain cells and the crowd response is like caramel on a sundae. Today in Cuzco I spent about ten minuets listening to a group of people dressed as prophets and Semitic tribesmen trying to explain the presence of the Incas in the old world. It took abut five minutes before I had to get my camera out. This, of course, attracted a good bit of attention from the senior screamer and he therefore approached me as I walked away. He spoke some decent English (much better than my Spanish) and handed me a paper written in English that explains what he was all about. I thought it might have been theater, but it wasn't. The sight, should anyone be interested, is http://www.israelcongregaciondejehova.com/. I am certain I could run this through a google translator, but would it make anymore sense then? Probably not. The main thrust of this entry is that I need to see more roots in our crazy sermons. I can't recall the last time I saw an angry anti-gay protester dressed up as the John the Baptist, much less an random Semite circa Roman occupation.
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