Nice points ... too bad Jesus ain't comin' back! He learned the first time,
for many of the reasons you point out, that it just ain't gonna be woith it!
Especially with the lunatic Cecil B. De Mel Gibson giving everyone an
extended training film on what is supposed to happen when Jesus
returns, inuring them with images of blood and gore and suffering and the
like ... even though they -- the Xtian faithful -- seem to want to decry and
empathise with the "Saviour," the ONLY way they can regurgitate their
ardour and amour through their belief systems is to have the poor fellow
suffering and trudging under the weight of a couple big hunks of wood.
This is something that has been ingrained in their minds for millennia,
the image of their "Christ" having his hands and feet impaled on the the
Cross, just hanging their in eternal suffering and pain. Again, the only
way they can be inspired to mercy and love and all of that is by having
their subject of devotion in the most distressing of situations.
The consistent theme -- especially with De Mel's flic -- is they will have to
get their Jew over and over and over again for ever and ever and ever in
order to get their religious fix. This is like mainlining pain and torture and
grief and all of that nifty neat stuff. And, this is why wars are so popular
... especially in the Middle East ... they'll kill enough to get their blessings
... and recall -- when you look up "blessing" in the dictionary -- that it is a
matter of a blood rite. The French are not so circumspect about that ...
"blesser" means "to wound." Wounds usually mean blood. Blood usually
means pain. Pain usually means ... well, I'll leave it to your imagination.
But if anyone thinks Jesus is coming back for a repeat performance has
also an imagination, perhaps not as sensible as yours or mine, perhaps
on the order more of delusion. Like a bunch of Christers who are buzzing
around looking for their next blood-junky fix ... vampyres all with their
teeth bared like rabid quadrapeds, ready to spring into action and lunge
at the the bare naked throats of the flocks of sheep that abound is so
much religious story-telling.
Oh. For a nice take on "Arian" / "Aryan," go here:
Arianism Versus the Council of Nicaea
http://www.monksofadoration.org/arianism.html
By Brother John Raymond
Church History
When we look at the actual history of this concept in the context of the
churches, it kinda takes on a whole 'nother meaning and brings Hitler and
Bush into focus. Apparently, the "Arians" didn't think Jesus was divine, or
at least any more than they, themselves, were/are. So, maybe it's a case
of everyone getting a turn if there is indeed a "democracy" of being G*D's
emmissary (-ies). ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Alamaine
Grand Forks, ND, US of A
