April will be church month for Christians this year. Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday,
Easter and any other day of that week that needs an excuse to celebrate the
most bizarre belief system on the planet.
There should be a “Mayday Monday”, a “Testing Tuesday”, a “Wallowing
Wednesday” and a “Seriously? Saturday” to make the week complete.
Christians will give homage to a loving, all-wise, all-knowing
god who could not figure out a way to save humans from sin other than
sacrificing his own son. Clearly this is
one of the worst cases of child abuse and negligent homicide on record. Christians will cry real tears as they recall
Jesus committed suicide for their sins and we wonder why he just didn’t climb
off the cross and end childhood cancer.
I am oh so grateful that since he and his dad chose for him to die it
was on a cross elsewise Christians and their churches would be adorned with
guillotines, firing squads, hangman nooses, large axes, etc., instead of the
more subtle reminder that the cross was an instrument of torture and death. None of those other death methods would look
good hanging around the necks of the faithful.
And before he left, Jesus instituted a cannibalistic ritual
via the Last Supper. This is my
body. Eat it. This is my blood. Drink it.
So gross.
Riding an ass into Jerusalem cheered by a crowd who does not
have a clue what is going on seems oh so similar to Trump rallies where they
chant, “Lock her up” or “AOC sucks” or any other ignorant expression. The same brilliant people will be chanting “Give
us Barabbas” soon enough. So the
tradition of blindly following the crowd without engaging their brains may
easily have begun with those folks 2,000 years ago, carried on today by the
faithful who think Trump is a god-send.
Of course, Trump will be playing golf at his own facility during all
these morbid celebrations, gaining personal wealth at tax payer expense while
self-serving preachers rake in even more money.
All of this belief system hoorah occurs without one shred of
evidence that any of it really happened.
I am so amazed. I guess the only good
news is that this cult is shrinking world-wide and is only growing in areas
with the lowest levels of education. Perhaps
there is some hope that humans will be able someday to think their way out of
preposterous belief systems. Until then,
I buckle down for Church Month. Let the
mythological depression begin and the hallucinatory rejoicing commence.
