Ditto-Heads, Glenn Beckers, 700 Clubbers, Ingrahaminites, Fox Newsers, Acolytes of Franklin Graham, Radical Catholics, et. al. may comprise as much as thirty-eight to forty-two percent of the population of this country. The Taliban may be a threat in Afghanistan. The "Conservative" indoctrinated Right is most definitely an existential threat to this country, the environment and the world.
It's time to intellectually and culturally disenfranchise the radical Right. An angry, Right-Wing, quickened, anime, Christ is roaming the Land -- he/she is wielding a brutal cross, hacking wildly at my child's water, air, security, person (she is open-minded, tattooed, birth-controlled and spiritually searching) -- future.
She and I are working on a blog that we are going to call, "Slouching Towards Sepphoris: In Search Of The Son Of Man With Man."
" Tzippori ( Hebrew ), also known as Sepphoris" is located in the central Galilee region, 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) north-northwest of Nazareth , in modern-day Israel . [1] The site holds a rich and diverse historical and architectural legacy that includes Assyrian , Hellenistic , Judean , Babylonian , Roman , Byzantine , Islamic , Crusader , Arabic and Ottoman influences"Interest on the part of Biblical archaeologists is related to the belief in Christian tradition that the parents of the Virgin Mary , Anna and Joachim , were natives of Tzippori, at the time a Hellenized town. [2] Tzippori of the time of Jesus was a large, Roman-influenced city and a hotbed of political activism" Archaeological evidence give credence to the idea that Jesus, while living in Nazareth, would have done most of his business in Tzippori. [7]" -- Wikipedia
If Jesus spent considerable time in Sepphoris, it was easily walking distance from Nazarath (4 miles), could the doctrinal, dogmatic Christian message be terribly flawed? What if Jesus of Nazareth was a frequent visitor to Sepphoris? He would have been exposed to diverse cultures and philosophies. Therefore, not only was he a Jew but he would possibly have been influenced by Platonism, Stoicism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, Egyptian Atenism, Sumerian Tammuz and Hinduism.
Was Jesus a genius or was he of average intelligence? Was he right brained or left brained? Was he really a carpenter? Did he love for the sake of "Christianity" or did he love without boundaries? Was he, very simply, an everyman that discovered amidst the militarism, brutality and sectarianism of his time that to respect and love one's fellow man as one's self could change the world? Was he in fact the "sun" of God -- whichever God that may be?
What is going on in the homes, churches, minds, schools and propaganda of the radical Right is dangerous because it challenges everything that is good and profound about the miracle of Jesus Christ.
"Every man partakes of the divine nature in both his spirit and his flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: it is universal."
Nikos Kazantzakis, author of 'The Last Temptation Of Christ'
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.
Below Are some links to ponder:
Johnny cash - Personal jesus - YouTube
The Last Temptation of Christ - clip - Jesus defends Mary - YouTube
Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word - YouTube
Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy 1977 - YouTube
Clips From Hagee's Sermons - Scary Stuff - YouTube
Michael J. Fox: Limbaugh's Attack On Sandra Fluke "Was Really Offensive" | Media Matters for America
Sunsara Taylor on The O Reiley Factor with Laura Ingraham - YouTube
Ann Coulter: I would tell gay son he was adopted - YouTube
Franklin Graham: Mind Bending Morning Joe Bigotry & Ignorance - YouTube
Glenn Beck - God Punished Japan With Earthquake, Tsunami - YouTube
Fox Attacks: Black America - YouTube
Archie Bunker on Democrats - YouTube
Glenn Beck Announces 'We Are All Catholics Now' Campaign - YouTube
Archie Bunker on Christian vs Catholic - YouTube
Ron Paul: "Execute Homosexuals". Ed Schultz's Sick Claims And Smears. - YouTube
FOX ATTACKS the ENVIRONMENT - YouTube
Pat Robertson - Haiti's Pact w/ Devil Created Earthquake - YouTube
Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was A Capricorn (Owed To John Prine) - YouTube
John Wayne on liberals - YouTube
Does Fox News' Bill O'Reilly Want Government Religion? - YouTube
You're going to hell - YouTube
Bob Dylan - Little Drummer Boy - YouTube
Joel Osteen: I'm Still A Homophobe - YouTube
Steve Earle Nothing But A Child.wmv - YouTube
Jesus Christ Superstar 01 - Overture - YouTube
Jesus Christ Superstar - Superstar - YouTube
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) Gethsemane (14HQ) [WS] {HQ} (((Stereo))) - YouTube
Whitney Houston & Gospel Choir - whiteny houston - Oh Happy Day.wmv - YouTube
Neil Young - Star of Bethlehem - YouTube
Bruce Cockburn - Mary Had a Baby - YouTube
The Staple Singers ::::: Glory,Glory,Hallelujah. - YouTube
Song Of Bernardette - Jennifer Warnes - YouTube
Kinky Friedman - They Aint Makin Jews Like Jesus Anymore - YouTube
K.D. Lang sings Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah - YouTube
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Swing Low Sweet Chariot - YouTube
Ry Cooder and David Lindley - Jesus On The Mainline - YouTube
scrooge is a changed man - YouTube
Thank you very Much (reprise) Scrooge (1970) - YouTube
Baudelaire was
driving a Model A
across Galilee.
He picked up a
hitch-hiker named
Jesus who had
been standing among
a school of fish,
feeding them
pieces of bread.
"Where are you
going?" asked
Jesus, getting
into the front
seat.
"Anywhere, anywhere
out of this world!"
shouted
Baudelaire.
"I'll go with you
as far as
Golgotha,"
said Jesus.
"I have a
concession
at the carnival
there, and I
must not be
late." -- Richard Brautigan
TO A CONTEMPORARY BUNKSHOOTER
You come along. . . tearing your shirt. . . yelling about
Jesus.
Where do you get that stuff?
What do you know about Jesus?
Jesus had a way of talking soft and outside of a few
bankers and higher-ups among the con men of Jerusalem
everybody liked to have this Jesus around because
he never made any fake passes and everything
he said went and he helped the sick and gave the
people hope.
You come along squirting words at us, shaking your fist
and calling us all damn fools so fierce the froth slobbers
over your lips. . . always blabbing we're all
going to hell straight off and you know all about it.
I've read Jesus' words. I know what he said. You don't
throw any scare into me. I've got your number. I
know how much you know about Jesus.
He never came near clean people or dirty people but
they felt cleaner because he came along. It was your
crowd of bankers and business men and lawyers
hired the sluggers and murderers who put Jesus out
of the running.
I say the same bunch backing you nailed the nails into
the hands of this Jesus of Nazareth. He had lined
up against him the same crooks and strong-arm men
now lined up with you paying your way.
This Jesus was good to look at, smelled good, listened
good. He threw out something fresh and beautiful
from the skin of his body and the touch of his hands
wherever he passed along.
You slimy bunkshooter, you put a smut on every human
blossom in reach of your rotten breath belching
about hell-fire and hiccupping about this Man who
lived a clean life in Galilee.
When are you going to quit making the carpenters build
emergency hospitals for women and girls driven
crazy with wrecked nerves from your gibberish about
Jesus--I put it to you again: Where do you get that
stuff; what do you know about Jesus?
Go ahead and bust all the chairs you want to. Smash
a whole wagon load of furniture at every performance.
Turn sixty somersaults and stand on your
nutty head. If it wasn't for the way you scare the
women and kids I'd feel sorry for you and pass the hat.
I like to watch a good four-flusher work, but not when
he starts people puking and calling for the doctors.
I like a man that's got nerve and can pull off a great
original performance, but you--you're only a bug-
house peddler of second-hand gospel--you're only
shoving out a phoney imitation of the goods this
Jesus wanted free as air and sunlight.
You tell people living in shanties Jesus is going to fix it
up all right with them by giving them mansions in
the skies after they're dead and the worms have
eaten 'em.
You tell $6 a week department store girls all they need
is Jesus; you take a steel trust wop, dead without
having lived, gray and shrunken at forty years of
age, and you tell him to look at Jesus on the cross
and he'll be all right.
You tell poor people they don't need any more money
on pay day and even if it's fierce to be out of a job,
Jesus'll fix that up all right, all right--all they gotta
do is take Jesus the way you say.
I'm telling you Jesus wouldn't stand for the stuff you're
handing out. Jesus played it different. The bankers
and lawyers of Jerusalem got their sluggers and
murderers to go after Jesus just because Jesus
wouldn't play their game. He didn't sit in with
the big thieves.
I don't want a lot of gab from a bunkshooter in my religion.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works
except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory
except the face of the woman on the American
silver dollar.
I ask you to come through and show me where you're
pouring out the blood of your life.
I've been to this suburb of Jerusalem they call Golgotha,
where they nailed Him, and I know if the story is
straight it was real blood ran from His hands and
the nail-holes, and it was real blood spurted in red
drops where the spear of the Roman soldier rammed
in between the ribs of this Jesus of Nazareth. -- Carl Sandburg
"A priest with two suits is a thief." -- Lenny Bruce
