What's on my mind? Not Jesus's birth, but his death. It was prophesied many times in the Bible. And yet... the Jews and Romans are castigated by Christians to this day for killing Christ. Why? Why aren't they lauded for it? Without Christ's death as foretold in the Scriptures, there would be no Christian religion at all. Weren't his killers just acting out the parts which a conveniently inscrutable God had assigned them thousands of years earlier, like powerless players in a Greek tragedy (which, by the way, the whole story of Jesus is, at its most fundamental level)? This was the kind of question I used to ask in my catechism class, and the priest used to tell me to leave the room and pray for forgiveness. Still praying, I'm afraid, but no word yet on the forgiveness...