Re: Good Jesus/Bad Jesus

Ian Dorion (dorioni@intellinet.com)
Wed, 02 Apr 1997 11:54:20 -0600

yoel haalmoni wrote:
>
> >> yoel had said-
> >> I, for one, see Jerry McDonald as being perfectly Christ-like. The
> >> personality and character traits he displays on this list clearly reflect
> >> the dour and angry New Testament teachings and the whip-bearing,
> >> Pharisee-hating Christ.
> >
> >(Christ-Ian 4/2) Yeah Yoel I agree with you. He is Christ-like. What was
> >it Jesus said, "If a man smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the
> >left also. And if he smite the on the left cheek, knock the shit out of
> >him." The second part got lost in the translation. I know because god
> >came to me one night long ago and told me.
>
> yoel-
> Well the Biblical Jesus is a mess- totally duplistic and a
> split-personality schizophrenic:
>
> You have the sweet lovey-dovey meek-and-mild Jesus who forbids calling
> anyone "fool" who gives stupid commandments like "resist not evil" and
> "turn the other cheek", who calls himself "lowly" and "humble".

(Christ-Ian 4/2) Sort of like Papa's little "Yellow Jacob" before his brothers
sold him into slavery.
>
> Then you have the ranting and raving Jesus who never hesitates to call his
> opponents "fools", "hypocrites" and worse. The Jesus who enters a house of
> worship with a whip and drives the public out of the temple. The Jesus who
> purposely speaks in parables so as to hide the truth of the Gospel and
> thereby condemn all unbelievers to a burning hell. The Jesus who condemns
> entire towns, the Jesus who drown pigs for no reason, the Jesus who came to
> "bring not peace, but a sword", the Jesus who states that unless one hates
> his parents, he cannot be a true disciple...

(Christ-Ian 4/2) This is Joseph during the famine. He learned that God don't
like no wimps.
>
> Logically and morally speaking, the ugliness of the character of the second
> ranting-and-raving psychotic Jesus should superceed and cancel out the
> sweet nothings of the former mushie-pie Jesus.

(Christ-Ian 4/2) This is more like God Almighty himself.
>
> I'm sure that Hitler had his sweet shoogie-woogie days and that Eva Braun
> must have been attracted to SOMETHING.
>
> yoel