Idiot's Revelation*

"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bothers me, it is the parts I do understand." - Mark Twain

People's reactions when they see you are reading anything Bible related is funny.  My loving partner picked this book up, looked at me squint eyed, skimmed the pages and said, "You better not read this before bedtime.  You will have nightmares."  I reminded her that two nights earlier we had watched a fire breathing dragon make human charcoal of Kingsford Landing and have seriously watched weekly decapitations, heart stabbings and general blood letting of all types as television entertainment.  Dany the Dragon Queen ain't got nothing on destruction when it comes to an angry Jebus.

If you buy the generally accepted story (and everything is up for interpretation and argument), John the Apostle while 100 or so years old was banished to a deserted island in the Mediterranean where he dreamed a fantastic story of divine retribution to unbelievers and a New Jerusalem to be delivered to believers.  There is the warning of not dabbling in occult arts, meaning I assume black magic, fortune telling, astrology and the like (not that I advocate such things, believe me). But we are supposed to believe a long time bitter Christian has a psychotic break and his hallucinations as fact.  After a lifetime of abuse, as all Christians are prone to be turning the other cheek and all, John finally gets even with the bullies.  His God finally gets pissed and protects the meek.  God sends 100 pound hail, stinging locusts, boils, poisons the water, spreads death in a multitude of gory ways.  John must have slept well after this dream.

Bran the Broken has spoken! The days of "judge not, for ye shall be judged" is over.

But wait, there's more! If you were a believer in Jesus and survived to experience one of several bodily resurrections from the dead and you more than willing to fall on your face in praise of the Lord, you would be allowed to live in a splendid city with no want or pain or disease, and of course, death.  Reading this tract you are in the small minority of living souls able to collect.

The authors, Stan Campbell and James S. Bell, Jr., do a fine job taking the reader through this morass of dredge.  They are good hearted and respectful, not confrontational as I would be.  Sometimes their lightheartedness is exactly what is needed.  They start in the beginning to the end, as it is instructed to do, and comment without heavy handedness.  So much of art and literature is recognizable in these passages, common phrases, "grapes of wrath" (where God puts the unbelievers in a wine press), "for the birds" (where God sends the birds to eat the human carrion after Armageddon), "the Four Horsemen" (God's shock troops), The Elaborately Dressed, Blood-Drinking, Scarlet-Beast-Riding Prostitute (commonly referred to the Lady in Red), and of course the greatest villain of all time, the AntiChrist and his buddies the Beast and False Prophet.  As you might surmise, Game of Thrones is a fairy tale compared to this book.  The authors go further and explain the different theological approaches interpolating these passages, one more absurd than the next.  Thanks for the effort, fellas.

One real plot hole for me was releasing Satan from the Abyss to reign over the Earth, cause his usual havoc, for God (Jesus isn't mentioned beyond the intro) to throw him back into the Abyss for a thousand years.  Then he releases him again! WHY?  The usual bad things happen as you would expect, only then does God throw him into the burning sulpher lake and, I think, kills him.  Should have done it the first time, doncha think?

Accepting Jesus as your savior doesn't bother me in context of your living life.  The Golden Rule, be kind to strangers, help the needy and sick, the Beatitudes, all the wonderful parables are worthy and noble ways to live your life.  I commend people that uphold these concepts.  It makes for a better world all around, and especially because mean spirited assholes make it difficult while you do it. It's the fear based, guilt driven, herd mentality of psychopath religious leaders using this kind of literature on the stupid, unthinking masses that drives me mad.  Muhammad had his visions with an angel, look at the world he created. Let's all get our feet on the ground, shall we?

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