{"id":10427,"date":"2019-09-29T19:04:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2019-09-29T19:06:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T00:06:39","slug":"who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/10427","title":{"rendered":"Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A comic book series I’m currently following, titled Second Coming<\/em> is a comic take on both Christianity and Super Heroes. Jesus is sent back to earth to be mentored by a Superman clone, Sunstar, because God doesn’t think he’s manly enough. There’s a line of dialogue in issue 3 that really speaks to an issue I had with Christianity before I walked away from religion altogether. The scene is Jesus is confronted by a group of homophobes in front of an LGBTQ bar…<\/p>\n

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Phobe<\/strong>: I have to say I don’t think God is very happy with the choices you’re making.<\/p>\n

Jesus<\/strong>: He never is.<\/p>\n

Phobe<\/strong>: Were you to die now, you would go to Hell, where demons would stab your eyes out with forks, roast you over an open flame ns, I don’t know, feed you to goats or something. The scriptures are a little unclear…<\/p>\n

As Paul says in First Corinthians…<\/p>\n

Jesus<\/strong>: Who?<\/p>\n

Phobe<\/strong>: The Apostle Paul.<\/p>\n

Jesus<\/strong>: What?! I don’t know any Paul.<\/p>\n

Phobe<\/strong>: Paul, the guy who wrote half the New Testament!<\/p>\n

He spent his life spreading the word of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

Jesus<\/strong>: I asked James to spread my word. I asked Peter to spread my word. I never even asked Paul to spread the jelly!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I laughed for hours after reading that. There’s an old joke about how Protestantism represents the ascendancy of Paul over Peter, and Evangelical Protestantism represents the ascendancy of Paul over Christ…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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