Fetterisms (1 of 5)

"Everyone's A Theologian"
(Guest Blogger: Paul "Papa" Fetters)

Theology is the study of God. It comes from two Greek words, Theos (God) and Logos (rational thinking). Thus, theology is one’s rational thinking about God and those things pertaining to God.

Everyone is a theologian is a fact I learned as a boy in Charlie's Inn, the local “Beer Joint” in Willshire, Ohio. I grew up a Pagan Protestant. In the 1930, 40s, and 50, you were Protestant, Catholic, or Jew. You were baptized a Catholic, or born a Jew, or a Protestant by choice, or as in my case, by default.

Although my family did not cast their shadows in the door way of a church, my theological training was not ignored by the mentors at Charlie’s. Most of the men had seen better days spiritually--some had been baptized, others confirmed, and a few had experienced an earlier conversion crisis.

There was not one subject on which my mentors at Charlie’s did not share their rational thinking. Even the atheist and agnostic are given to moments in which they share there thinking about the concept of “God.” It seems that individuals can not leave God alone.

Perhaps it is because God will not leave them alone.