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My mind is running some interesting scenarios about what secrets she put together that got her church back up so much.
“Someone touched someone inappropriately”
“Someone’s cheating on their spouse, with THAT other parishioner over there.”
Or… maybe she was just vocalizing the things that kept running through MY mind as a kid, sitting in church. “Doesn’t today’s sermon conflict completely with last week’s sermon?” “Why do all these middle-eastern people have Caucasian names?” “If they called him ‘Rabbi’, for that was their world for ‘teacher’… wouldn’t that make ‘them’ Jews, and him an actual Rabbi?” “If global literacy is only a fairly recent development, would common fishermen 2000 years ago have any reason or means to learn to read and write… and if NOT, then who wrote the four Gospels with their names on them?”
“If the Romans arrested him, and the Romans tried him and found him guilty of inciting rebellion against the Empire, the Romans tortured him, and the Romans nailed him to the cross, and the Romans left him to die there.. Why does that angry screaming redneck on the subway think the Jews (his own people) killed him? Oh, because that’s what the Romans told us? Where’s the center of Christian power again? Rome Italy? Yes, the pieces are starting to come together now.”
(No need to start a whole argument trying to refute or answer any of these questions please. I’m just saying they were things I wondered about while I was sitting on a pew as a child… and had better impulse control to ask aloud.)
My mother loves to tell the story about how I taught one of the Navy Chaplains that 8t is not a good idea to solve your sermon writing dilemma by having a Q & A period instead when you have very intelligent children in the Church. (None of us remember what the question I asked was, but it apparently stumped the priest. )
The answer I like best for why Christians tend to blame the Jewish for the crucifixion rather than the Romans is that blaming Rome became impossible when it became the seat of christiandom. The question I alway ask is if the crucifixion was God’s plan for the salvation of mankind, why are we blaming any humans? Seriously, Judas, the Pharisees, the Priests, Pilate, Herod and the Romans were all just players caught up in an all-powerful God’s plan and really had no say in the matter. They literally could not do anything other than what they did. Why blame them?
Yeah, I tend to upset a lot of people with that piece of logic.
Why does “The Harper Valley PTA” come to mind?
Or “The Mississippi Squirrel?”
@[An Old Country Doctor]:
I remember that one!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU]
😛
I also remember that every generation finds a way to “re-invent” old jokes, & make them new:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WzswZXTMZQ]
😉
Thank you for the Mississippi Squirrel – that one was new to me!