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onager

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6. Botanical failures run in the family
Sun May 24, 2015, 05:26 PM
May 2015

Remember what Jesus did to that poor harmless fig tree. He was hungry and the tree wouldn't bear fruit OUT OF SEASON. So Jesus whacked it - withered the fig tree so it would never bear fruit again. What a dick.

I'm really surprised that one didn't get edited out of the Holy Babble completely. I don't care what the Sophisticated Theologians say. That story makes Jesus look not only childish, but pretty stupid too.

Long as I'm here - another (of many) stupid/puzzling Jesus yarns is the one about him attacking the moneychangers in the temple. Yes, the story all Lib'rul Xians love to cite in defense of civil disobedience.

But the moneychangers were a critical part of worship at the Jerusalem Temple. Visitors weren't allowed to pay their tithes with Roman money inside the Temple - those coins carried the image of the Emperor, so they were considered pagan idolatry. Roman money had to be exchanged for Temple-approved currency. And the people selling doves and other sacrificial animals were dealing in ritually purified critters - again, the only ones allowed to be sacrificed in the Temple.

It all reminds me of the Beggar Scene in "Life of Brian" - "I was a leper. I had a career. Then that bloody do-gooder Jesus healed me."

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