John 4:48.

A couple goes on vacation to the Holy Land, and the wife dies suddenly.

The husband is trying to handle the arrangements, and while talking to the undertaker is told that he can either pay $30,000 to have her body shipped back home, or $1,000 and have her buried in Jerusalem.

He thinks for a minute, and decides to have her shipped home. When asked why he says:

"2000 years ago, a man was buried in Jerusalem, and three days later, he rose from the dead. I can't take that chance."

Laughter ensues...

I don't think Jeshua would have laughed at that.

Jeshua ben Joseph ben Sarak, that was his actual name, Jesus is just how you say it in Greek.

Jeshua son of Joseph son of Sarak.

If you listen to Christian mythology, they will talk all day about the miracles he did; healing the sick and infirm, walking on water, feeding thousands with a few fish and a couple loaves. Hey, I was a college student... Not as impressive after you had to do it to make it to the end of term.

Hey, can any of you remind me what he said on the hill? I dropped my notes, and need to put them in order. What order were the parables in?

I mean, you have read it, right?

My religious views are... complicated... to say the least. I have read so many religious and esoteric texts at this point that sometimes I dream in rituals.

But that is the point. I have read them. The Bhagavad gita, The Torah, The Hamaval, even the lowly Bible.

Every one of them have holy men, suspending the laws of physics, to bring comfort and help to the masses of mankind. And in the end, they all say one thing. The tricks are nothing, you could do them if you do one little thing.

Listen to the message.

And in the end, the message is always the same. The Divine only asks one thing of us at the end of the day.

If you listen close you can here it saying...

"Don't be a dick."

A single question on the test, and the whole class somehow failed. You were paying attention to the teacher, right?

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