chapter 16

Some Pharisees and Sadducees wanted to trap Jesus into exposing himself for the rebel he was. Make him do miracles.

Jesus doesn't take the bait. He tells them they can see what weather is coming but can't see the signs of the times.

"You godless people want to see a trick, wait see what happens when you nail me on a cross."

Jesus does a bread story to show how come no one should think about what the Priest and lawyers say.

We know now there are reasons better than bread. Hell. Some people don't even eat the stuff.

Peter told Jesus he was the real Jesus. The one.

This is hopefully not true. I doubt Jesus was the first to question his ancestor's laws.

Part of the tragedy of this making religion out of stories, even if some things are true, is that Jesus seems impossible to be, unless you have a holy stamp from God.

Well, it ain't like that. Jesus was anyone. And anyone can say and do as they please if they can get a following. And Jesus was going for the Gentiles. Most of the humans.

Just to show how progressive we have become. Even Jews can be Gentiles.

How about this. It is a common belief hammered into us that we suck. We are far short of being like holy people.

Wrong.

Most of our Catholic holy people are tyrants.

One that wasn't was Mother Teresa. They made her holy, or talked about it.

To make it look like she was something abnormal. Okay, she was, unfortunately perhaps, but she was anyone. Just like Jesus or anyone else can prance around and tell you to.

Bloody well wake up.

Flog.

Where were we.

Ah, yes.

Jesus explains to them why he has to hang on the cross.

"Look guys. A new religion pops out every day, like a teenager with zits. 4 days before the prom he 's ..."

"Jesus."

"Right, James. If we are to sell our story in any form, we have to do up a big promotion. It may take 2 thousand and 7 years for someone to hear the meaning of our actions. The story must survive and I must get up on a cross, get nailed to it at the eclipse, die at the darkest moment. Get put in a tomb and be found gone 3 days later."

"But Lord Jesus, you could really die up there."

"I've got no choice, Peter."

"You do, Jesus Christ."

"No Peter, I am what I am. Just because the God's we have been given to believe are not real does not mean that our actions have no meaning. We are a part of evolution that could be something so brilliant. If I die up there, know that I, or someone who believes he knows me, will see there was some meaning in my brutal death."

"Jesus Christ."

"Just make sure I get my special vinegar at the right time and it will slow me to a coma. Don't let the bastards break my legs."

"Jesus Christ, Jesus."

"Peter. Relax. If we do this right, neither of us will die before we are really old and wise men enjoying the company of young and foolish women."

Judas, the little brother of Jesus, dreaded the plan more than anyone. Jesus had told him he was the one to deliver him to the enemy troops.

I missed the part about Jesus giving his disciples the keys to heaven. Key ideas. And that's sort of true.

Understanding is a long process. It is part of us that we make a story that lasts.

The Son of Man comes as King.

Oh.

chapter 17

Is saw a baseball team in a tree once on half a hit of acid and a few joints. So I believe they might have thought they saw, they were Peter, James and John, Moses and Elijah having a talk with Jesus.

"Let's build 3 temples."

"No time."

"This is my son and I like him."

The disciples had had too much wine and crashed face first on the ground.

"Get up, you drunks."

They looked up and saw only Jesus holding out a joint.

"Don't tell anyone about this until I've left the country."

They asked how come about Elijah. And Jesus told them it was John the Baptist. Beheaded for his beliefs. The same would happen to Jesus. Except for the head leaving the body because some bitch thought it would be a funny little ironic joke on her husband.

Flog.

Dung. I just had a vision of people walking through paradise flogging themselves.

Jesus rags his disciples out for not having enough faith to deal with the evil spirit of a little boy.

"Every little boy has an evil spirit. But it is only one of the many spirits evolution has given him. Love him for all that he is and you will see he just wanted some ice cream."

With a little faith and a drop of understanding, you can do anything.

Jesus then reminded his disciples he would hang soon. The day of the eclipse was drawing nei.

"What."

Always a time table in space physics.

Jesus tells Peter if taxes gotta be paid, don't look for the Jewish exemption law. Pull a coin out of the mouth of a fish. And take it to the temple mafia.

chapter 18

Jesus tells the disciples that kids are cool and other people should remember they are just older kids with a tiny bit more knowledge and experience. And often an aversion to instinct.

Which is dumb.

On account instinct owns our past 14 billion years.

Instinct is evolution.

And you shouldn't mess with the heads of children by jamming them up with your stupid old religion creeds and silly rituals. Let them play.

For Christ's sake.

Jesus runs over cutting off bad limbs, hands, feet.

Then he goes on about the one lost sheep story. Also a favorite of preachers.

Then Jesus says about if your brother sins against you, talk to him in private first. Then if he don't smarten up. With witnesses. Then the church.

Then tag him a pagan or tax collector.

Don't try to make sense of everything.

And people should get together to pray. Trade cooking ideas.

And then he tells a long simple logic story for children.

King pardons some rich guy his debt, some poor guy gets thrown in jail at the request of the rich guy for being late on a 10 Euro loan. So the King found out and threw the sorry bugger in jail. The rich flogger. Until he paid his no more pardoned debt.

Which supposed to show us what's gonna happen. If this, then good. If not this, then bad.

This same simple quantum attempt at dancing between opposite extremes. How come. Perhaps to attempt a concept of reality.

How are we doing so far.


chapters 19 - 21