Travels In Scientology - Part Two - Page 5

Maybe so, thinking, but none more at all than the idea of a virgin birth or of a woman turning to a pillar of salt or of a staff turning into a snake.

“They’re kidnappers!”

Thinking - It’s not really kidnap, though, is it? These people are adults. They can decide for themselves if they wanna whistle tarrah to the folks what raised them. Did not Christ himself bid his followers to leave her indoors indoors, to abandon mothers and fathers, to sling aside the progeny like a month-old wank-rag?

Says a man straddling the back of my brain - “Each epoch gets the religion it deserves!”

This is the crux of the matter.

Having outgrown Christ and Buddha, having decided that the whole rich man / camel / eye of needle carry-on is all well and good when you’re a student, like, but fuck me… Having decided a bypass is needed that folks can get to Heaven without having to go anywhere near the townships of Revolution and Individual Accountability and Solidarity where thon hoary old Marxist Christ done spent his gap year blathering and braying, having reached these conclusions, it was surely inevitable that the West would spawn something like Scientology.

Scientology is the only religion that makes any sense whatsoever at this point in time.

The Bible is too dangerous a bugger of a thing for it suggests that the poor and the exiled and the disenfranchised are pissed the fuck off and are two cross-nails shy of wrenching the power back from the vicious bastards who built their empires ‘pon their shoulders. To Hell with the perversions the Churches are peddling - Christianity is a philosophy of rebellion and revolution.

For this reason, the West has grown ever more uncomfortable with it. Its preachers will divert attention to the two lines in the Bible that mention rim-jobs or tea bagging, they’ll pontificate endlessly on the texture of the Whore of Babylon’s hoo-hah, on the notes that maybe came from out those trumpets, anything at all that keeps folks from stumbling upon the message of those texts, that keeps them from questioning those IMAX screens at the end of every pew, those blood diamond crucifixes, those Aryan saviours, those chariots of friendly-fire.

What the rise of Evangelical Christianity represents is not a strengthening of belief in The Bible but a fear of it. Keep folks thinking about abortion and homosexuality and you’re keeping them from thinking about what Christ got up to in that temple.

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