America's fascination with the apocalypse

[Lemuel Underwing]

Sounds like somebody forgot to take their medication.

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:09 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Jesus Christ, God damit anyway, and two virgins pile-driven by hans
> christian anderson & his stampers; we call them tampers, but Benny
> Profane would appreciate the tale of the two virgins who refuse to
> have their names changed to stampers in the anderson tale. Yup, the
> bible is a sacred text; the new testament is like the other major
> sacred texts of the so-called great religions, and is therefore, a
> work that should never be confused with good journalism. That
> westerners, who are christian to the core, be they atheists or
> whatever, continue to pat themselves on the beack for their porgresive
> rejection of all things christian, sacred and profane, and not in some
> monty pyhthon satirical sens-up, exposes their lack of sincerity on
> issues of religion, ethnicity, race, and so on. One would hope that
> folks might have a sense of humor about this, but no; some anger or
> fear or whatever taints the satire. maybe, as edgar says in Lear, it
> is but an evasion of whoremasters.
>
> > If it's true that the New Testament is a work of fiction, and total
> eclipses
> > are tools of hypersdimensionality, it is my theory that if you found out
> > when Flavius Josephus experienced an eclipse you might account for how
> Titus
> > was so inspired to reinvent himself in the Roman past.
>
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