It is a sign that we theologians have run out of ways to ponder the existence and being of God when we start naming our theologies after animals but here goes:

"Dog Theology" goes like this: "You feed me. You pet me. You shelter me. You love me. You must be God!"

"Cat Theology" goes like this: "You feed me. You pet me. You shelter me. You love me. I must be God."

I would like to put forth a Squirrel theology. The way squirrels live their lives puts them on a different theological plane than dogs or cats?

First, consider that squirrels are so good at what they do they have generated a whole anti-squirrel industry — the manufacture of "squirrel-proof" bird feeders. If you have ever attempted to feed just birds and not squirrels from your backyard feeder, you know that no one has yet succ…