re: #96 bosforus

Is the key. Like The Sanity Inspector said, there is no compulsion.

Yeah. Jesus made it very clear that if you didn’t believe, you were free to be a mean, selfish bastard. I guess he did, anyway. I have never found any of those bits in the Gospels, but I suppose they may be in there.

He did, however, suggest that such a lifestyle was not exactly the best one in the eyes of himself and his Father, but mysteriously, the same hypocritical sonsabitches who want to post the Ten Commandments in every courtroom the country appear to feel now that the parts about giving to the poor and making oneself part of the community are the optional bits, which you can get salvation without.

Of course there’s compulsion! You really think that a guy who says ‘no man comes to the Father but through me’ is just gently hinting when he says the rest? There just isn’t POLITICAL compulsion in the American system, but these hypocritical sonsabitches want to insist that religion belongs in the political sphere, and the only way they can do that, as they persistently try to drag the Ten Commandments into every courtroom in the country, is to insist that Jesus somehow did not put any actual requirements on his followers, and that if you don’t want to take care of the widow and orphan, no one can make you.

As far as I can tell, this is the most heretical mauling of Christianity to occur since, well, this may in fact be THE most heretical mauling of Christianity to take place outside of a science fiction book. The Conservative Bible Project makes the Adamites look like Thomas Aquinas.

(Gasping.) OK, I’m done now.