Jesus

 Right after I saw The Banshees movie, I blocked someone boring on Facebook. I doubt you will find any of this new, does it need saying? I like that there are four gospels. Four gospels refute literal truth. Christ is a descriptive name. There were no Cross kids running around Nazareth. Is Jesus also descriptive? In some gospels the name Jesus is a big deal:

-Name him Jesus.

If Jesus were just a name, would they have said:

-Name him Ralph.

Jew Zeus comes to mind. A later interpretation says that Jesus is a Greek mistranslation of Joshua. Joshua made it through translation just fine in Torah. Mathew affixes the name to another character; thus, arguing that it was a name of the time.

Ancient people were aware that the name was descriptive. They didn’t care about literal truth. The story spoke to them as they spoke it to each other. Every holiday but Hanukah was trashed, every commandment broken. Ruled by the future Italians, monotheists were confronted with evil. The story of Christ is their ironic response.

Leave the lost story about Mary’s abortion failing. There is one lost story that should be restored: Herod orders the slaughter of the children. Jesus is hidden in the manger. The miracle is that the child is silent. This contains an important lesson: sometimes you should shut the fuck up. Perhaps the lesson was too obvious. This story foreshadows several other times when Jesus held his tongue. It makes Jesus taking the Lord’s name in vain more poignant:

-Now you speak.