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Zorra

(27,670 posts)
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 11:33 PM Aug 2012

One day, Paul was riding on the road to Damascus,

Last edited Sun Aug 12, 2012, 12:56 AM - Edit history (1)

preaching to anyone who would listen about the evils of being gay.

All of a sudden, he was blinded and knocked from his horse. Jesus appeared, shook his head, and said to him, "Paul, Paul, Paul, why are you persecuting me?

Paul answered, "But Lord, how am I persecuting you? What should I be doing?"

Jesus, totally exasperated, said, "OK....I'm gonna say this just one more time"...and proceeded to recite the Sermon on the Mount, finishing the sermon with, "but the most important things are to Love God, and Love your neighbor as yourself'.

"But Lord!", Paul cried indignantly, "What about THE GAYS?".

To which Jesus thundered back in reply:

Paul! DID I STUTTER?!?

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One day, Paul was riding on the road to Damascus, (Original Post) Zorra Aug 2012 OP
Cute but false. "Nice Jesus" never existed. n/t Old Union Guy Aug 2012 #1
Could you expound on that a bit? nt Zorra Aug 2012 #2
You're almost right MNBrewer Aug 2012 #3
Quite right. Or one as the consequence of the other. n/t Old Union Guy Aug 2012 #4
The joke Zorra Aug 2012 #5

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
5. The joke
Sun Aug 12, 2012, 12:18 PM
Aug 2012

is designed to illustrate the hypocrisy and misdirected hatred of LGBT's by fundamentalist pseudo-christians, based on Christian scripture itself.

OK, first of all, yes, there is very little historical information about Jesus and his life, leading some to be skeptical that he ever existed at all. And this is reasonable skepticism, IMO.

In Christian scripture, and lacking any other historical evidence, there is no evidence that Jesus ever said a single word about any LGBT person or behavior.

Jesus did, according to Christian scripture, preach the Sermon on the Mount, and also did clearly say that loving God and one's neighbor was the ultimate summation of the Hebraic scripture in which Christianity is rooted, and that loving God and loving your neighbor as much as you love yourself, takes precedence over any other ideological belief and behavior.

Jesus never said one word about some violent wannabe cop named Saul/Paul who was reportedly, according to Christian scripture, complicit in at least one murder, later coming along long after he (Jesus) died, to contradict, and add to his words. Paul essentially and effectively corrupted the (biblically recorded) philosophy of Jesus, and led to the establishment of the bizarre religion that has hatred at the core of its ideology, and which attracts followers who have a perverse need to hate, and to express and manifest this hatred, particularly for any person who they view as somehow different from themselves (especially, at this time, LGBT persons).

The essential meaning of the "joke" is that conservative fundamentalist christians are so ignorant and stupid, that they don't have the slightest clue about the philosophy that they claim is the basis for their beliefs and behavior, and indeed, believe and practice the very opposite of the dogmatic dictates that they claim to believe in.




I explained this for anyone not familiar with the dogma, teachings, and practices of conservative fundamentalist christianity.

Debating whether Jesus was "nice", or ever really existed is somewhat irrelevant to the "joke". The effects of the belief that he did, or does, exist, are what are relevant.

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