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=> Shall we Cock Snooks?

Shall we Cock Snooks?

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, February 20 2009, 20:06:14 (CET)
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Verily Christianity is a mess. To give the name “intellectual” to anyone espousing Christian doctrine is a bad joke, even Christian “education” is a moronic ox...not even a mildly intelligent person can make sense of it. ( I suppose you could get an advanced degree from a university that taught VooDoo...a PhD in how best to wring a chicken’s neck and the various holy uses of its blood).

I don’t mean sweet Jesus...I mean the ridiculous religion the Romans made out of him.

Am reading “The World of Josephus” by G.A. Williamson. This fellow must have some basic smarts...considering his position and education...the guy graduated from Worcester College, Oxford, after all, but then maybe he got his degree in “Chicken Wringing”...there he became ‘Classical Exhibitioner’, which sounds mildly perverse...and he translates and writes books, real ones, like this one published by Little Brown.

In a section about the house of Herod detailing how he murdered his sons, Williamson wonders what would have happened in Judea had any one of his sons turned out to be decent and lived to become the next king, thereby making Pontius Pilate’s rule unnecessary.

Here’s this poor man thinking he makes sense while displaying his “compassion”...

“It may be, had one of them become ruler of Judea instead of the tactless, and incompetent Archelaus, that unhappy country might never have become the prey of Roman procurators. If Pontius Pilate had never occupied the palace of Caesarea, had never from his vantage point in the Tower of Antonia attempted to keep order among the turbulent Jews and to satisfy their clamorous demands with a contemptuous and cynical judgment, there might never have been a Golgotha.”

Do I have to be the one to point out to this doofus of an intellectual that without Pilate and without Golgotha there never would have been HEAVEN for Christians???? And that if not for Pilate and Judas and a hammer and nails there would be no Christian religion? Am I the one to point out the whole fucking point was that Jesus had to be KILLED? That he had to be sacrificed to make up for Adam and Eve and the rest of that fairy tale so people could get washed of their Original Sin and get into heaven?

Does this guy REALLY wish there could have been “no Golgotha”? What would happen to his mother and father, his wife and children if there was NO Golgotha? Where would their souls be if Jesus had skipped his fate...the fate chosen him by his loving dad from before time began?

Do Christians even BELIEVE what they say they believe or has their faith driven out their common sense?

Oh, and about the cocks...

“But if the Jews were proud of being circumcised, that very thing made them contemptible in the eyes of the Romans, and became a provocation to anti-Semitism. ‘Vin tu curtis Judaeis oppedere’? Wrote Horace in one of his less poetical moments. Ben Jonson (name dropper, mine) would have translated the question literally, but for more delicate ears (ha ha) we may paraphrase it as ‘Shall we go and cock snooks at mutilated Jews”?

It made as much sense in Latin. Perhaps they mixed it up and it should read “snook cocks”....which at least makes a little sense...assuming to snook a cock means to shorten it a tad. ‘Snooks” has been used at times as a term of endearment...maybe to cock snooks is to smack her? Or maybe...? Anyway, that he thinks this is funny goes with everything else.....I’ll keep reading but the guy had better watch it.

Intellectual my arse.

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