19 Jan '06 08:04>
Act 1; God creates earth and everything in it. Eve, being the wench that she is, eats apple. God not happy. Punishes all of mankind, forvever. Next couple of thousand years plagued with plagues, wars, civil unrest, floods, pillars of salt, sodomites and general smiting. [curtains close on Roman soldiers marching into sunset....]
Act 2; God sends son to earth. Son performs a few party tricks for the locals, turns fish into wine and loaves into gold, frankensense and mihr (quite what for, no-one is sure). Anyhoo, besides the point. Jesus, for that is his name, dispenses that age old wisdom 'it's nice to be nice'. Promises that if people are nice to him and his Da, they'll be nice back. Jesus, however, suffers the indignity, not only of being crucified, but also some fella (having had a lager shandy or two too many) seeing him staggering off to Jerusalem A&E (emergency room) - not the most dignified way to slip into obscurity for a self proclaimed son-of-god, I'm sure you'll agree.
Anyhoo, here's just the crunch. Nothing else happened after that. No more curses or locusts or killing of the first born, nothing.
God, apparently, (i'm informed) resides outside of time. For him, nothing changed throughout this 10,000 year period. So, good reader, why DID he quit with the smiting? Not like he grew up or something is it! I mean he's god! Did he change his mind? Settle down? OR, as I believe, is god schizophrenic? Nowadays it's not called that anymore, it's called 'dissociative identity disorder'.
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Act 2; God sends son to earth. Son performs a few party tricks for the locals, turns fish into wine and loaves into gold, frankensense and mihr (quite what for, no-one is sure). Anyhoo, besides the point. Jesus, for that is his name, dispenses that age old wisdom 'it's nice to be nice'. Promises that if people are nice to him and his Da, they'll be nice back. Jesus, however, suffers the indignity, not only of being crucified, but also some fella (having had a lager shandy or two too many) seeing him staggering off to Jerusalem A&E (emergency room) - not the most dignified way to slip into obscurity for a self proclaimed son-of-god, I'm sure you'll agree.
Anyhoo, here's just the crunch. Nothing else happened after that. No more curses or locusts or killing of the first born, nothing.
God, apparently, (i'm informed) resides outside of time. For him, nothing changed throughout this 10,000 year period. So, good reader, why DID he quit with the smiting? Not like he grew up or something is it! I mean he's god! Did he change his mind? Settle down? OR, as I believe, is god schizophrenic? Nowadays it's not called that anymore, it's called 'dissociative identity disorder'.
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