Is Easter A Fable From Deep Down Cuckoo Land?

Let’s delve into today’s ramble with a fable that’s from deep inside cuckoo land. “Many years ago one early Sunday morning and after Jesus’ Good Friday crucifixion, several of his women followers went to his tomb only to find the heavy stone blocking the entrance had been removed, the tomb empty with the grave clothes left behind. They were told by two dazzling angels (by the way, no one knows how they got there): “He is not here, he has risen, come see the place where he lay.” Later that day, Jesus appeared (out of the blue I might add) to the apostles and allowed them to examine his body with its wounds, assuring them it was him, and that he had been raised from the dead.”

 

He 'Rose' And Left Behind His Burial Robes

Hmm, you see what I mean when I say a story from deep cuckoo land?

It’s Easter Sunday today and Christian is aggravated. At just about every street corner, he’s there doing some vexed street preaching. He stands for hours-on-end in the scorching sun, inhaling the dust off Kampala’s streets - a tattered bible in one hand, while belting out words that don’t make sense at all to those who fleet pass him – and I suspect even to himself. I don’t know why his preaching always comes across as being aggravated – perhaps he didn’t get ‘some’ the previous night, or his kid was caught stealing and has been locked up – or perhaps, Landlord is giving him sleepless nights over unpaid rent. But whatever the case may be, he is just never happy. He doesn’t preach in a soft voice akin to that of Joyce Meyer or perhaps that of Jesus before he (Jesus), got lynched.    

 

The Street Preacher: Always Vexed and Angry

There are a number of things that I don’t click about Christian for he has become fairly good at focusing on the moral failings of others while ignoring his own. They pretend that the worst sin you can commit is sexual but, so does gossip, divisiveness and quarreling—sins that Christian routinely flouts - because he commits them and also steals – even whilst in church, then walks out half-an-hour later flossing about his religious values yet, he’s walked off with a phone that does not belong to him.

  

In Church, Look Out For The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing Pretending To Be Holier Than Thou As He Steals Your Phone While You Pray 

He also ignores Paul’s injunction to stop judging non-Christians and like Jesus is supposed to have said, “I didn’t come into the world to judge it, but to save it.” Like today for example, all those wearing their Sunday best will look down on the rest of us in our tattered old T-shirts and torn jeans because it will be clearly obvious that we didn’t go to church – and they did. And so what?!

They gossip, they talk about other people rather than to people. They avoid conflict or they run into it like a bulldozer claiming they are all about truth. They want to appear that they are in the know and that they have first-hand information yet, they know nothing - they weren’t even there.

 

Christians Love Gossip

I think a general rule that Christian forgets, is if they can’t imagine saying it in real life to a person, then they shouldn’t be saying it all. And the same applies to those who are always angry or cynical that all they do is to whine to whoever listens that you think: “I wouldn’t want to be friends with someone like that in real life.”

Another thing about Christian, is that they are toxic, cynical and don’t live in the real world. Given the chance, Christian will jump on any platform they are given – including social media, or standing at the street junction to show the world their weirdness that I just see them as being out-of-touch and fraudsters.

But don’t get irate and come looking to shoot me – I’m just saying it as it is. 

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