On Easter Sunday, I received two text messages wishing me a Happy Easter. One came from a Buddhist. The second was from a Jew. I received no Easter wishes from my Christain fiends except for a Trek salesman. Nor did I offer any. For those of us who pretend to be Christians, this holiday is just another excuse to eat and drink ourselves into a coma. Some people do like to dress nice and peacock each other at church. It's the busy season at most Christan churches, the only day of the year for most to pretend they're religious. But most of us who call ourselves Christians really are far from it. I include myself. So, who are Christians? I'd say that the most Christian people I know are Jews. Let me tell you a story that corroborates this opinion.
I have a good friend who happens to be Jewish. He is the real deal, too. Not some secular or self-loathing Jew. He attended Jewish Day School and learned Hebrew while I in a Catholic school was sipping the altar wine and pretending to know Latin. He goes to the synagogue while my church is a bike path.
Very early on Saturday morning, somewhere around 6 or 7 am, someone repeatedly began to ring the doorbell at my Jewish friend's home. For those of us who pretend we are Christians, this would be a great excuse to pull out the Mauser or a shotgun and blow the intruder away. Castle doctrine and all that, you know. He could be an illegal. Better safe than sorry.
Instead of grabbing a firearm, my friend grabbed the doorknob and opened. Standing there was a young boy, completely bare ass naked and a bit worse for the wear. My friend took him in, clothed him, fed him and called the police. Turns out the young man has developmental issues, and I believe police reunited the lad with his family.
I have no doorbell, but on Easter Sunday, I was awakened by a rap-rap-rap at what seemed like my door. It was only 6 am, so I thought it must be me dreaming. But it continued. After about 15 minutes, I realized that someone actually was banging on my door. I swung the door open and there was my neighbor in stupid pajamas, telling me that his zippered socks were stuck and asking me for help to unzipper them.
"No!" I shouted. Before slamming the door shut, I told this idiot not to bother me before 9 am unless he's dying or dead. I don't have a shotgun, but I don't need one because I'm pretty scary at 6 am, especially if I have no caffeine.
Now if I were a real Christian, I would have helped this guy and maybe I even would have washed his feet. But I'm not.
So as I have long maintained, the most Christian people I know are Jews.
Want more proof? Here's the Easter message that President Donald Trump, a "Christian," spewed on Truth Social:
"Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing — But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!!"
Let's contrast his screed with the poetic message delivered by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who happens to be Jewish:
"Today is a very special day, one we always eagerly await, celebrated by millions of people. Easter. A day that is a beam of light – especially bright and strong during times when dark clouds try to cover our sky. A day that gives us all hope and reminds us: evil has its hour, but God has His day. This is one of the meanings embedded in the history of Christ. About His earthly suffering and death, and about His resurrection, about how, sooner or later, but inevitably, evil will retreat, and life will triumph."
Do you remember when the world had leaders that appealed to our better angels instead of hatred and fear? Right now, the field appears to be limited to one person, who was a comic before he went into politics.
37 comments:
Pathetic!
Bernie,
1. Zelenskyy is a man of character. Trump is a bum. Even his followers know this but they are ruled by fear, fear of him, fear of immigrants, fear of leftists, fear of equality, fear.
2. You implied that secular Jews are not the real deal. Most of my Jewish friends are secular and are Jewish to their cores. My son’s Rabbi once told me you can be an Atheist and still be a good Jew.
3. In your piece, you are guilty of what psychiatrists call transference. Just because you’re not a good Christian doesn’t mean other Christians don’t practice their faiths.
Better to post this on your blog on the day after Easter, rather than before, and risk God striking you down in a blaze of fire and brimstone, you heathen fucking liberal piece of shit.
BO's hate and jealousy of his betters continue on a daily basis
You focus on words from politicians and dictators. That's unfortunate. The primary issue is that religion has fallen out of favor, across the entire world. The generation currently coming of age is more faithful and religious. Perhaps there's hope. Happy Easter.
All organized religions are nothing but money-grubbing cons. Believing in what you truly believe in does not mean you have to pay your weekly dues and contribute to every manner of request for more of your earnings.
As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright moron.
H.L. Mencken
July 26 1920
Of course, BO did not post trumps original greetings. Bernie has too much TDS to tell the real truth.
Catholic are hoping to get a less political and less USA hating replacement.
From the virtual mouth of a typical Christian.
Prophesy fulfilled!
Donald Jackoff Trump is far and away the least Christlike and most evil piece of orange shit to ever occupy the White House.
There is no way that Donald duck errrr excuse me Donald Trump wrote that message on truth social. I didn't mean to insult ducks. I apologize for that mistake. Donald Trump doesn't have a vocabulary that will allow him to articulate an Easter Message of that caliber. He has to be taught other words so he can describe something other than it being "beautiful" If something is good, it's "beautiful". If someone articulates a message in a manner that is impressive, it's "beautiful". His hair is beautiful. His cabinet members are good and do a "beautiful" job. John D. Vance went on a "beautiful trip" to visit the Pope and the meeting was just "beautiful". Listen to him. I guarantee you just one thing. When he finally shuts up it will be "just beautiful".
First, 8:29 am, I wasn’t a fan of Pope Francis, but I didn’t view him as hateful. As for your post, Bernie, I am a practicing Catholic, but like to think the values taught by my parents have molded me as much as my religion. I went to Catholic school, but we were not *told* how we should behave. We saw our religion in action. My folks took in immigrants and helped them establish a legal life in America, they volunteered, donated their money and kindness, opened their home in the middle of the night to accident victims, etc. Perhaps their faith (both Catholic-educated) was a factor, but I believe they were just good people who helped, when needed. My siblings and I do the same, though I often lament “no good deed goes unpunished.” As a Catholic and human, I fall short each and every day, but I like to think I try.
Being an American is so embarrassing at this point in time. Any president who writes that shit is a pathetic loser and so are his followers.
President Joe Biden lives in Trump’s head he will never get over the fact he LOST. Trump is a vengeful despicable human being and presidential respectable scholars already rank him near the bottom if not last among the Presidents.
I could not believe trump would write something so hateful and unhinged whether it be his first, second, or tenth message on Easter or any other day. I actually had to check that he really wrote it. They are not words written by a rational human being let alone a US president. Those who did not know his true colors and his mental state do now.
You can practice your religion without any monetary contribution. Apparently money is your God I feel sorry and pray for your type.
Your Jewish friend sounds like a good man taking that boy into his house . At this confluence of Easter, Passover and the Pope's passing, we are reminded that the world needs more good men like your friend.
Whether Trump's message was the first, second or tenth message on Easter or any other day they are the words of an irrational hateful person. They are not the words of a leader who deserves the respect of his country. Anyone who did not know "the real Donald Trump" does now....he has shown his true colors and mental state.
You aren’t a Christian because you’re good. You’re a Christian because you have a close relationship with God which lets Him work through you. That’s what the disciples did. We know very little about the moral life of the disciples. What we do know leads us to occlude they were a contentious, forgetful, stumbling group of men who ran away from their Master at a crucial moment. Jesus did not choose them for their courage. They were chosen for more important attributes. They were charitable and unselfish.
Whenever I hear someone talking that the word “goodness “ equals the word “Christianity “, I know that they have missed the point and have created an obstacle between themselves and true religion. Not one of us is good. Jesus Christ was good. St Francis of Assisi was good. Albert Schweitzer was good. Compare your life to those lives. Are you good? No. We are all miserable sinners, every one of us. When we bow down to pray whether in church or in private we always confess our unworthiness to before God. For a Christian, goodness is a natural result of your relationship with God. You are never conscious of your actions that define you as a Christian.
Oh my! You can’t mean that!
Do you really think that will happen?
It's not transference, it's logic. I never said that there are no good Christians. That would be illogical. It is illogical to draw conclusions about all based on the attitudes of some or most. But I will say that most people who proclaim they are Christians, myself included, fall far short of the mark.
Religious advice coming from an atheist is about as meaningful as political advice coming from a democrat.
I’ll take an Easter message from Trump any day over putting the democrats back in power so they can do the bidding of criminal illegal aliens.
Case closed.
Scary observation.
10:48, That's gonna' go to his head, lol.
I spent Easter Sunday reading my autographed copy of the Trump Bible. It's the holiest of Holy Bibles. Propheciest of the Prophecies. I learned how to treat those not like me.
Trump, a convicted felon 34 times over, from his own peers.
2:39 PM convicted by all left-wing lunatics not his own peer's boy are you a stupid deranged democrat
I would have preferred he stop after his first message. But this is america and he as all of you can say what he feels. And he speaks some truth. Why are people so adamant about bring s gang member back into the country. Don't the democrats have more important messages to the American people than that?
you need help
and so are you!
So Trump was nearly assassinated, had a weaponized DOJ indict and convict him, Billions of Media dollars spent trying ro destroy him, Academia & Tech against him, and he still won- twice. He still lives rent free in your head- pathetic.
This American Catholic Republican is hoping to get a pope who speaks the truth and stands up to bullies, as Francis did.
Fellow citizen, the issue is not whether one Salvadoran man is a gangster or not. The issue is about process and the rule of law, which is something that the United States has traditionally been proud of. I think that a person can be sympathetic to some of Mr. Trump's policy goals (an orderly immigration system) without resorting to tactics that we rightly decry when done by other repressive governments around the world, like Iran and North Korea. When we ignore the rules and allow one person the power to say who is in and who is out, with little more than a "trust me", we are headed down a path of ruin.
Point heard. However sounds like the Maine governor argument with Trans athletes. Is there not a better way of getting that point across than rally behind a gang member?
walked into a bar...
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