Jagina
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Jesus – NOT so compassionate
After the disruption of families, amputations, the fate of the swine and the odd fig tree, one might also wonder if Mr Loving Kindness really has a sense of compassion. Surely he loves everybody? Bizarrely, JC instructs:
This was said to a disciple who had just lost his father and wanted time to bury him! Even the hardest-hearted employer would give time for your father's funeral!
An insensitive Jesus leaves Lazarus lying in his grave for four days so that the miracle of his resurrection appears more impressive.
In another incident the hapless Judas Iscariot questions why Jesus has expensive ointment (a pound of "spikenard" worth 300 denarii, or a year's wages) rubbed on his feet (and wiped off with a woman's hair!). Surely, says Judas, the money could have gone to the poor?
"In a time where the poor were bled to death without an income tax calculator, this seems to be a very cruel action on his part."
In a retort that must always have delighted the plutocrats of the Church, JC says:
Well, we could all say that! Why not do something about poverty?
Judas, of course, like the other disciples, is a Jew and the early church took pains to distance itself from this perfidious people. Is JC himself an anti-Semite? Certainly he dissociates himself from the Jews, as if they were not his own people:
Guess who "the children" are? Did the Jews ever have a chance?
It is also worth noting that the "great moral teacher" at no point condemns the practice of slavery, quite a shortcoming for the supposed saviour of mankind. Indeed, the advocacy of a belief that everything is by God's will – including tyranny and enslavement (and that happiness is to be realized in heaven after death), is intolerably immoral.
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