Zombies....

Don't even ask why I'm writing this.


Zombies *shudder* apparently are believed to be the reanimated dead or a mindless human being. Now if I was to write a post on the second definition it would have to propound that most teenagers are zombies. But I'm not so we'll leave the poor angsty teens alone, they're all huddled up in a corner mooning over Edward, or texting anyway.

Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Voduo, which told of the people being controlled as laborers by a powerful wizard or a bokor.

It also would appear that zombies main source of food is.. humans...oh my! Forget the dumb cougars (maybe in the city this isn't a fear, however up north it is something to be aware of) picking off the kids in the backyard, start checking for zombie tracks. Which probably look like normal human foot prints, just the staggering, mindless kind, with perhaps the odd body part laying along side. However now zombies are not depicted as thralls to masters, rather, modern zombies are portrayed in mobs, flocks or waves, seeking either flesh to eat or people to kill, and are typically rendered to exhibit signs of physical decomposition such as rotting flesh, discolored eyes, and open wounds, and moving with a slow, shambling gait. They are generally incapable of communication and show no signs of personality or rationality, though George Romero's zombies appear capable of learning and very basic levels of speech as seen in the films Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead (I'm sorry, but if you read the italicized portion carefully we appear to have a complete description of teens) so give up any idea you had of reasoning with them.

In my limited research there doesn't seem to be a set idea about how one would go about protecting ones self from a zombie. None of the normal deterrents were cited like salt, garlic or lanolin (really there was nary a mention of any of them). So I've come up with my own list.

Deep Zombie Off. I know this is out there, in some lab a geek has created a zombie spray.

Bazookas.

Tanks.

Turkeys. It is a little known fact that Zombies hate turkeys and will do anything to get away from them.

Last but not least.

The Atomic Bomb. This however might have the side effect of producing some other bizarre group of beings due to radiation....and I'm not even going to go there.

So are there really zombies? Do we have to be ready for ‘em? Well, actually I think you meet them every day. Repeatedly. That is if you are a Christian who is meeting people who are not in Christ Jesus. Because all who aren’t saved through His blood are lost, all who haven’t been raised to life are dead. Ergo the living dead.

They are moving about, but are spiritually dead, their souls are bound in the chains of sin, bound to a bokor and that bokor is Satan. “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God”. And no, salt, garlic and lanolin won’t help here either, but, the ministry of reconciliation will. In fact it will set them free. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them, And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God”.

And again “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus”.

So watch for those zombies and take every opportunity to share the reconciliation of Jesus Christ with them.