chapter 22

"The kingdom of heaven is like this."

Direct quote from vs. 2. It is from the not so bad translation: Good News Bible. Today's English Version. The one I have is from Canadian Bible Society. I asked my mom to send something with the Apocryphal Books. They aren't very good. I liked a few of the stories. It shows the level of logic they were at.

About a four year old level from today.

Anyrabbit. What I want it to mean is. What is is what is and it is heaven. And it is also hell. Just ask someone who is not permitted drinking water. Or is a political prisoner.

But that's us. We are hell. Perhaps because we believe the lyers when they tell us we don't deserve heaven. So what if we don't. It is here and so are we.

Another common sermon topic. The wedding feast. The king spent 14 billion years preparing his feast and when he sent out the party invitations, no one came. They even abused and or killed his servants that gave out the invitations.

The second time the same thing. So the King sent his armies to kill the murderers and burn down their cities.

Fare enough.

Then he sent his servant to the streets to invite anyone and everyone.

One guy didn't wear a dinner jacket so they tied his hands and feet and threw him out to the street.

Oh Boy.

The next one is about tax and Jesus shows the Priests the money so they see Caesar. Or in Gold we Trust. So it's theirs anyway. If they want it back, let them have it.

Then the wife married seven times to seven brothers and who gets her in heaven. That's the 'help your brother make descendents' law of Moses, in case you still haven't read the Torah.

It's a stupid question and Jesus says forget about it.

"Forget death cult Gods. God is the God of the living."

Then the Priests ask more tricky questions to see if they can get Jesus on a blasphemy call.

"Flogging Moses was a bloody Egyptian bastard inbred son and grandson of the Pharaoh of Egypt. And I'm the bastard son of Herod. There are no real Jews. Priests are pimps."

But they didn't get it on tape.

And Jesus tells them to love God and love your neighbor too. As much as you should love you.

Which is sound advice.

Have we defined God. Most people have some kind of definition.

I prefer the one where it ain't a he or a resent invention. Some people say God is everything. It's nice. Silly, of course. Everything is real whippin' big. Even if you could say our Universe was one god, it makes hesheit still bleeding big. Figure it out roughly by multiplying 14 billion X light years. And it's bigger than that. So in the end, forget God and let's talk about the God potential in the evolution of wanna be Gods.

Okay.

Then they talk about David asking the Lord to help kill people. And Jesus said if David called him Lord then how could he be his son.

Which is stupid and holds no logic or sense.

chapter 23

Left then.

Jesus goes at the lawyers and priests of the laws of Moses with, considering the power of the synagogue 2000 years ago, impressive fury.

You gotta obey their teachings but don't take example of their vile actions.

"They practice not what they preach."

They tie heavy loads onto people's backs. Stand around in magnificently coloured and gold trimmed costumes, text written on head and arm bands. Playing the role of holyer than thou comedy where nobody gets the joke.

They have the best seats at stonings, feasts and a place in the synagogue. They want you to fear and respect them. Call them teacher. Rabbi Rabbi. Greet them with respect above what a farmer might receive.

Flog that. Flog it till it is beaten into the sand.

We will not hold you scoundrels in high esteem.

You bloody hypocrites who lock the kingdom of heaven in people's faces.

That was a direct quote vs. 13.

Oh Glory. He's not done. I don't mean your writer. Jesus Christ. He is hopping mad. And that's why I really like him even if I don't always agree with him. Often though.

You cross the ocean to save a soul and prepare it for a hell worse than yours.

You are blind guides.

You make gold sacred.

You neglect justice and mercy and honesty.

Yes, we left out a bunch.

Pick a fly out of your tea, a little nat, and ram a camel down your throat.

I like that one even if, or maybe because, it is so off the wall.

You selfish blind priests.

You look so nice and you are so vile.

Man, am I glad Jesus said that. No one gotta say that dreaded obvious dilemma again.

You kill the prophets generation after generation. The descendents of prophet murderers. Finish what you bloody ancestors started. Wipe out every man woman and child who puts your godless laws to question.

You snakes and sons of snakes. Hell is yours.

The prophets come, you will kill some, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues, bloody hell, I've been direct quoting far too much.

This chapter is full out.

So let's slow down and figure out why prophets keep getting murdered by the evil pricks that hoard the wealth and keep their slaves ignorant so they are easy to step on.

But not long. Something is really wrong in Venezuela. They are going to a dictatorship and none of the wealth is making it through to the creatures living there.

Like everywhere else with wealth. Wealth walking had in hand with oppression and poverty of body and soul.

Quote, still from Good News Bible vs. 37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you!"

End Quote.

I wanted to embrace you, you rejected me. You will not see me again, me is God her, Jesus speaking as God, until you say.

Whatever.

The point is, this chapter negates the hierarchy and authority in religions.

And it has been put into the Christian religion holy bible what says to me, they, the writers of this, want to warn us of exactly what we have.

Religious leaders.

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So Jesus left the temple. On the way out, he told his disciples the place would come down. If it takes 10,000 years. Well, to be safe, let's say 2008. No more passovers. No more murder holidays.

Ha. Now there is a challenge bordering on impossible. We love too much our bloody victories. Over our brothers.

Jesus goes with the boys up a hill of olive trees and he warns them against false prophets.

Now here is the easiest thing to prophesize if you are thinking of getting into the trade.

We'll do Gideon for a quote. I don't have a King James that I can find.

Prophesy 101. First lesson. vs. 7: "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famine, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places."

Well, no pile of dung from the donkey of Jesus Christ. We, the humans, have been at war with ourselves since before we knew it.

Now that is a scary but true thing about us. It will take a prophet with real balls to say forget hierarchy, forget war and plunder and ignorance and slavery. And stop bloody well propigating hate lies as religion. For Christ's sake. And 300 million different species of animals on this very seldom piece of paradise.

The closest we have seen so far is one possible one, 200 million light years away.

That's not so seldom and quite encouraging for a hope that the Universe produces real gods. Of flesh and who knows what next. We were once fire, once mineral. At the time of the writing of Barbaralba Bible, still mostly flesh. We have married the machine. It will breed things we can't yet imagine. Like Moses couldn't imaging dinosaurs. Or the Earth going around the sun.

Now the next thing Jesus says is a beautiful rope thread and deserves a direct quote and a applause because it is so very true.

I really like this Jesus guy. If people didn't hang onto having to be saved by him, they could be like him. He isn't hard. Any character we choose is doable. Sure it's a little work to stop a charging train that has been racing around the planet several thousand years.

But it can be done.

Quote vs. 8 GNB: "All these things are like the first pains of childbirth."

Nietzsche wouldn't say it much better. Or different.

People, we are so very much at the very beginning. The universe is relatively young. We truly are not yet on the tit and we think we can nail down the laws of God in a universe that may soon have very many gods. We could be among that number.

Our descendents. Which is simply religion backwards. Instead of worshipping the great Father figure who knows all and kills those who don't do what he says. Prepare, or let evolution take us somewhere. Our kids are the gods.

In the next billion years we will be trying to explain ourselves to the aliens.

Hopefully they evolved with love being what mattered to them most. Then we can really have some nice sex.

There. I said it.

Conversation as well, of course.

"What was it like evolving on your planet, did you have to deal with any dinosaurs or Republicans."

"We are dinosaurs."

"Flogging far out."

Don't say; 'well eat me', to alien intelligence. Unless parameters are understood.

"One more question before I jump back to a billion years ago so you can witness it. Do you like sex big time or real big time."

Oh Helene.

We have strayed. Let's get back.

I don't remember the Horror of Daniel. Let me look.

Man, he was a real horse's ass, Daniel. Woops. Sorry. Nebuchadnezzar was the ass. Daniel the clever Jewish boy. But this doesn't matter now.

What matters is is there is one horror after the other and we got to get over it.

And here is a funny thing to get through. Like a clause to let the attentive reader remember, Jesus didn't die on the cross to be worshipped. He did it to show that he was very against the Laws of Moses and the priests and lawyers and Popes to come. You can kill me. Still you are dead wrong and I see you for the pathetic fakes you are.

Quote. Ah, never mind. He says something about doing tricks to get people's attention then selling them snake oil. Just like he did. Only he sold rebellion.

Then Jesus says in the end times the sun will go out. That's 10 or 15 billion years. We can be somewhere else by then. And the stars will fall from heaven. This won't happen until they are done flying through the expanding universe. At least 100 billion years.

So Jesus didn't know as much as we do. You have to take that into account when he is simply wrong like even I have been twice as a kid.

Unless you count spelling.

It winds down a bit, this chapter. He says, or the writer, many things that aren't true or relevant. To put the reader asleep so the reader forgets that Jesus is everywhere. In your kids. In your pets. He's coming to get you.

Even he doesn't know when. Maybe before the next flood.

So now.

Far out. No, he'll come when you least expect it. Like when you are watching a soccer game on TV.

It gets right Jewish like the Torah and it looks so much like a computer generated variation on either or. Love or kill. 0's or 1's. War or war. But hang on people. Just 14 billion years growing pains and already the angel can be seen in the Earth creatures. The soul is being born. The head is out and we can open our eyes and see that we are here.


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