Jesus Doesn't Suck

Another Blog so soon?

AND you have the link to what you're talking about AGAIN?

I've been posessed clearly. And despite this man's best efforts, not by the Holy Ghost (sorry, still a jew because I LOVE religion and am indifferent to Jesus).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=m-trends&v=1IAhDGYlpqY

Firstly, this is a GREAT poem. It's great words and a great performance of those words.

Secondly, it's really really close.

Jesus clearly didn't intend for the subsequent churches to turn into douches and pervert his message to something worse than he was fighting in the first place (I wouldn't have liked the Pharisees either).

Jesus was a sketchy, anti-establishment hippy who probably just wanted to help people and eat pork.

In other news: Here's why Jesus was at least contexually wrong about pork

http://www.tabletmag.com/life-and-religion/87719/forbidden-food/ (an extra article? Here? WTF?)

The poem is right that the church has effed up extremo. Then he ends by saying he likes the church and the bible. Followed by a quote from Romans.

ROMANS? REALLY? Come on.

Romans is theoretically written by Paul—I say theoretically because who knows. My problem with Christianity is, not surprisingly, linguistic. You can't translate shit four times and expect to get close. There it is. Mishandling. Also, cherry picking. Read holistically please.

Anyway, Romans is dated at LEAST 20 years after Jesus kicked it. “dangled” is how the poet phrased it. Assuming that Jesus really communicated what he wanted to the apostles (I just re-read LAMB—do it—and it alludes to the fact that they might not have had the best communication-station. Then they watch their best friend, whom they believe to be the Messiah, get tortured and die...even if he DID rise from the dead (that makes him a zombie), he peaces out again right after that. I don't think the psychological state of any of Jesus' friends was in an appropriate place to decipher and spread effectively anything.

So if you read the New Testament, it is my understanding that there are copies where all of Jesus' attributed words are in red and it's like maybe ¼ of the book. Maybe. And remember: aramaic turns into greek which turns into latin, maybe back to greek, turns into German and/or English....then turns into other languages. It's just sloppy is all.

Jesus sucks less than the churches and most christians would lead us to believe. And Judaism's gotten better in most places since the Pharisees so maybe we're all coming around. Let's hope for that.