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So humor me today,if it's not too offensive I'll leave it,if it is,I'll just delete it....
Well as we know, so many Christians just don't know the origins of the stories in the Bible. Also, too many show their ignorance when they claim that certain "laws" come from their god. I recently had a discussion with a Christian who was claiming that transvestites were "evil" because of the Biblical law that says that men should not wear women's clothing:
"The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God."
Deuteronomy 22:5
This "law" did not come from their god. In fact, the law concerning the wearing of women's clothes by men was not introduced until the 1st century CE following a riot at a the party where Jesus turned the water into wine.
The main band at this gig, The Jumping Jews Of Jerusalem were booked to appear in place of Bernard The Bear Baiter (who had jacked everyone off at the previous year's party.... when he turned up without a bear). The Jumping Jews were a sort of early 'glitter band' and had got rave reviews during a earlier tour of Palestine...anyway, they turned up at the party dressed in women's clothes, make-up, wigs...the whole business. The problem was that they were not members of the 'National Union of Transvestites' and, unfortunately for them, the leader of that Union was present at the gig......
The transvestite's union leader complained to Pilate that non-card carrying transvestites should not be allowed to appear and Pilate agreed. Jesus on the other hand, disagreed and said that, having travelled all the way from Nazareth, he wasn't going to have some jumped-up union official spoil the evening. Jesus began to voice his opinion a little too loudly and attracted the attention of the catering company manager that had been hired to keep the booze flowing. This was when the manager noticed that Jesus appeared to have had rather a lot to drink....yet neither he, or any his 12 mates had ever been seen going to the bar to buy any alcohol. It was then that it was discovered that Jesus had been turning the water into wine. This attracted the attention of Barnaby, who was Pilate's main man in the Customs and Excise department...who promptly arrested Jesus on suspicion of liquor tax evasion.
Well, this is when the riot started. Jesus picked up the jawbone of an donkey or something and started swinging it around his head...calling the place a "den of thieves" and referring to everyone as "fools" and "vipers", overturning tables ..... hell of a mess there was!! Some of his mates managed to escape and started to carry out wanton acts of vandalism on the nearby temple, virtually pulling the place down with their bare hands until there wasn't one stone left standing on another.
Jesus received 40 days solitary confinement in the wilderness for his part in the fracas. Pilate, eager to maintain public order brought in the "Prohibition Of Wearing Women's Clothing Act" (1AD) to prevent further riots.
Well as we know, so many Christians just don't know the origins of the stories in the Bible. Also, too many show their ignorance when they claim that certain "laws" come from their god. I recently had a discussion with a Christian who was claiming that transvestites were "evil" because of the Biblical law that says that men should not wear women's clothing:
"The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God."
Deuteronomy 22:5
This "law" did not come from their god. In fact, the law concerning the wearing of women's clothes by men was not introduced until the 1st century CE following a riot at a the party where Jesus turned the water into wine.
The main band at this gig, The Jumping Jews Of Jerusalem were booked to appear in place of Bernard The Bear Baiter (who had jacked everyone off at the previous year's party.... when he turned up without a bear). The Jumping Jews were a sort of early 'glitter band' and had got rave reviews during a earlier tour of Palestine...anyway, they turned up at the party dressed in women's clothes, make-up, wigs...the whole business. The problem was that they were not members of the 'National Union of Transvestites' and, unfortunately for them, the leader of that Union was present at the gig......
The transvestite's union leader complained to Pilate that non-card carrying transvestites should not be allowed to appear and Pilate agreed. Jesus on the other hand, disagreed and said that, having travelled all the way from Nazareth, he wasn't going to have some jumped-up union official spoil the evening. Jesus began to voice his opinion a little too loudly and attracted the attention of the catering company manager that had been hired to keep the booze flowing. This was when the manager noticed that Jesus appeared to have had rather a lot to drink....yet neither he, or any his 12 mates had ever been seen going to the bar to buy any alcohol. It was then that it was discovered that Jesus had been turning the water into wine. This attracted the attention of Barnaby, who was Pilate's main man in the Customs and Excise department...who promptly arrested Jesus on suspicion of liquor tax evasion.
Well, this is when the riot started. Jesus picked up the jawbone of an donkey or something and started swinging it around his head...calling the place a "den of thieves" and referring to everyone as "fools" and "vipers", overturning tables ..... hell of a mess there was!! Some of his mates managed to escape and started to carry out wanton acts of vandalism on the nearby temple, virtually pulling the place down with their bare hands until there wasn't one stone left standing on another.
Jesus received 40 days solitary confinement in the wilderness for his part in the fracas. Pilate, eager to maintain public order brought in the "Prohibition Of Wearing Women's Clothing Act" (1AD) to prevent further riots.
Not to offend anybody in Australia, but this incident sounds like it could have taken place somewhere down under........reminds me of a bar I went to in Washington, DC....
Honestly, I'm surprised this thread has gone so long without the obvious. A nice Jewish boy from the Galilee? What else could he have produced but Manischewitz!
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