Bourbon/Pretzel Logic

Those who suffered from alcoholic dementia now seen to suffer from religious dementia. This is nothing new in history.

Edward Gibbon reports newly minted christians would pound on a Roman magistrate's door in the dead of night, loudly admitting their religious crime, and demand to be burned alive on the spot. The magistrate would respond with a comeback in the morning, say after 10 AM, I'll be condemning some actors and musicians tomorrow and you can join in. It'll be flames up at three PM. Invite the family and friends. Kids pay half price.

The religiously demented are notoriously self centered, unwilling to share the flames and the audience with riffraff like actors, and worse, musicians, and demanded from the magistrate a pre demise cremation at that very moment. The flames do stand out better in the darkness.

OK, a Centurion and 80 soldiers (those Romans always could spell better than they could count) had to be called out along with the wood haulers in the middle of the night, on double OT (damn unions).

So they got their pre-dawn immolation just to shut them up. The magistrate smelled liquor on the breath. Gibbon further reports the demented seemed to bathe in the flames, all the time calling out, OK Edith, here I come.

Pre Council of Nicaea AA meetings were tough.

The funny this is, the J Man never asked of his followers any such behavior, especially waking grumpy Romans in the middle of the night . The Man was no fool.

He did instruct his followers to render unto Caesar, a suggestion his modern followers seem to forget, or brand socialistic and Un-American, and quite possibility terrorist related. It is felt by some to be a mistranslation of the Lord's Word. The J Man has a hard-on for the rich. Coin should pass in the other direction. Concentrated wealth is very large plank in the religiously demented platform.

The poor are hungry? Are there no horse apples on the roads?

Caesar making payment to those who can't pass through the eye of a needle is called tribute. Any coin remaining should go to defense.

It takes alcoholic dementia to prepare the mind for the religious dementia that leads to that kind of thinking.