Hello and a Merry Christmas everyone. Just past the midnight and in the ides of midnight mass, here I am writing for your entertainment. Well, Christmas is all about charity and goodwill, so some effort is surely not uncalled for, specially in this blessed hour.
Each Christmas, with all the joy, vivacity, seasonal goodwill and lovely cards from fine friends I have, I sit myself down with a tea (now that’s not alcohol, OK) and wonder. Have we got the message? The message of Christ that is.
Considering that, there are two distinctive messages out there. Just tune on telly or meet the guy with a black belt & a hood at church for the most common message. And you are invited to try out “The X-Rated Bible” or, if that is too hard to reach, just reach for the one at home to read following passages for the other message:
Matthew 10:35-36, Luke 14:26, Luke 12:51-53 & Matthew 10:34 (so much for the "Prince of Peace"), Luke 20:34-36 (if you plan to be together in hereafter), Matthew 26:24 (for anti abortionists), Matthew 23:14 & Matthew 12:34 (for some seasonal goodwill).
Now I am not asking you to give up on Jesus because some Bible passages are inconsistent with what ever we hold as moral values, but I am seriously asking you to open your eyes. I am telling you (here is my stint playing the vicar, enjoy), I am telling that Jesus did give us a message. And he was mostly right too! We are all a race of hypocrites. We seek & preach qualities and virtues that we ourselves do not ever wish to possess or practice, teach them to kids secretly hoping they will turn into ignorant selfish bastards like ourselves in order to succeed in life, curse and deride those who show even a modicum of those qualities that we suppose Jesus asked us to have, and most of all, we are so self righteous, despite bible asking us to be careful in this sense (Romans, Ch 14 if my memory serves).
No, we have not got the message Jesus gave us. We pretend we understand it, we pretend we practice the virtues, but in reality, his message is the last thing on earth we would try out. A den of vipers, a species resembling what Jesus described in Matthew 23:27, dead inside.
Want a proof? Here I am writing about virtues while downloading a torrent, and aXXo is a hero in my universe. This is piracy, and its stealing. Yet here I am downloading it. So much for the preaching about Jesus and the local actress prostitute clan. And there is more. Wait for it. I recently found a little kidda (relation) downloading something over the net and like that judge in US, I punished her aptly (while I returned home and switched on the BitTorrent as the first act). Is this virtue? Was she doing something I myself would not be found dead doing?
Yes, I do know there is something in torrents and computer malware writers that helps us deeply if you care to look. Freedom of information sharing and security – in simplicity. Because if we stopped torrents, where will we draw the line? How vulnerable will our systems be to exploiters if not for the malware writers who constantly keep showing us holes in our armour? But this is beyond the point. The question Jesus would have asked will be something like: Did you download Teen Girl P&*$% 3 to defend the freedom of information flow, honestly? How many of us can answer that truthfully? - that will be MY question, that is after Jesus had asked his and before you answer.
This Christmas I would want everyone to consider my question, for Jesus is not here to ask his. If you can't consider it, then hope in your heart that Jesus must never come down here to establish his kingdom, for we are quite pleased with the one we have made for ourselves.
After all, he might ask some tough questions from us. So lets ask him to f off and wish everyone around us a very merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas Everyone. Joy be to all.
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