The New Testament is actually somewhat consistent on a relative basis compared to the Old Testament, even though it has plenty balls ups even after hundreds of iterations. But we shouldnât be surprised at the ignorance of people thousands of years ago.
Iâm still waiting for someone to explain why Eqyptian historians never mentioned the flood that wiped out their civilization.
Many of us are.
I was staggering back to face the possible wrath of the bean an ti.
Teach Jack had been too hospitable and when I got to the bridge at annagry my stomach discharged its contents.
I stared watery eyed and snot nosed at the vomit floating messily orange in the water and LO! it transformed
At first I thought it was a star - 4 pointed - but it elongated on its vertical into a cross.
I realised I was having a religious experience! The cross rippled and more arms extended.
It wasnât a cross anymore. It seemed an orange starburst that spread and spread & then a tendril floated up out of the water, towards me.
I couldnât move. Transfixed as this tendril connected to the snot trail from my nose & like a flash of lightning burst into my brain and then I knew. It wasnât that a voice told me or explained it -
I just knew in that moment that the Flying Spaghetti monster was real and that I should dedicate my life to piracy.
It was,if you donât mind me pirating the phrase, a Damascene conversion!
And so,from that moment, I have never paid for a licence fee or market price for any music, film, or software.
The spaghetti monster freed me from all that and I will always be grateful.
Hail to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Iâm for mass tomorrow and communion. Iâll smuggle the wafer out and wait for the transsubstantiation. Then Iâll take a dna swab and send it off to one of them ancestry dna sites and see what comes up.
Two angels visit a guy called Lot in the town of Sodom. Every single man living in Sodom turns up on Lotâs doorstep demanding to be allowed to rape the two angels. Lot asks the men if they would rather rape his two young daughters instead.
The crowd say they would not, so God strikes them all blind and tells Lot and his family to get out of the town without looking back because he is going to destroy it. Lotâs wife disobeys the instruction and looks back, so, for reasons that are not adequately explored, God turns her into a pillar of salt.