A comedic roast of the “Christian nation” myth, where Virgin Monk Boy walks you through every empire that tried to put Jesus in charge and immediately regretted it.
I love a good skewering, and this one, well I actually did laugh out loud. I don’t usually get very far down the list of all the things Jefferson (and others) had to say about an arranged marriage between the new Republic and Christianity before the contortions are too painful to witness anymore.
👍 This pretty much sums our situation up. Does “getting stoned the Sufi way” mean what I think it means?🤣🤣🤣If so I say here-here🤣 Satire humor and a Sufi party 🥳 helps a lot in our current situation. Not to mention a healthy understanding of what Jesus taught and modeled in the Book of Stories. And here we are repeating history again!! Good grief🤦♀️🤷♀️
The article isn’t critiquing the church as sanctuary. It’s warning what happens when any religion decides it should run the state. That’s the pivot where reverence becomes control and where Jesus himself refused to play along.
Another thought-provoking post, especially this part:
"But instead He said “My kingdom is not of this world,” which is ancient-Near-Eastern monk speak for “Stop trying to hand me political power, you absolute clowns.”
During my covert phase of deconstructing, I discovered Adyashanti. After reading his book, "Resurrecting Jesus," I began to understand the chokehold that scriptural literalism had on me. Somehow I knew that my spirituality needed to be rescued from those who feared my personal agency. I also began to understand why they would fear it. Those who deconstruct and refuse to be silenced by the patriarchy are a force to be reckoned with.
What you’re describing is something I’ve heard from so many who slipped out of literalism’s grip. Once you taste agency, the old gatekeepers start looking less like holy men and more like security guards for a system that can’t survive honest questions.
And yes. Anyone who deconstructs without losing their voice becomes very inconvenient for the patriarchy. Which is why they try so hard to keep people afraid of their own freedom.
Loved this so much I took out a paid subscription! My first. Hope you feel duly honoured. I hoover up pieces on matters of theology, theodicy and theoeverythingelse. Myself, I lean more towards the teachings of the Buddha, but I was born and raised a Methodist. I'd love to see you concoct a dialogue between JC and the Buddha, looking back at what their words became...
Honored is the easy word. Grateful is the true one. Anyone raised on Methodist hymns and wandering toward the Buddha already speaks the language of seekers who outgrew the borders they were handed. A dialogue between JC and the Buddha would mostly be two men shaking their heads at what we did with their sentences. I’ll brew something worthy of that meeting.
Actually, if you go to https://www.virginmonkboy.com then search for "buddha" you will find a number of satire that carry some hard hitting truths in them. Let me know if you have any problem finding them.
I will do. Out this evening to dine with friends from Bangladesh, so I'll be in the linguistic land of insh'Allah for a while. But I love stepping over borders and colouring outside the lines. My favourite words in the English language are "protean", and "shape-shifter". And being Welsh, I treasure the fact that in the nme
I will certainly do that. Of all the pressing topics that clamour for attention, religion, faith, belief etc always win the day. I'm off now to dine with a Bangladeshi family, so we're heading linguistically into insh'Allah territory. But I love being protean, and take heart from the fact that as a Welshman, we have in the Mabinogion a collection of medieval tales, in which shape-shifting plays a core element: connected to magic and punishment, but also often tied to deception (back to the trickster!), transformation, and redemption.
As a resident in the remains of 'Evil Empire 7 (approx) where state and Church are constitutionally entwined I laughed at your satire (inclusively of course) but it did strike chills because once theocracy takes hold people's lives become worse often to the point of untimely and painful death. I don't wish this on the USA, you have quite enough to contend with already. Also, it isn't exclusive; any religion or part of a religion can climb into bed with empire or empire builders with the same, predictable results.
'Render unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's and unto God what is God's and don't cross the streams' (Gospel Ghostbusters mash up 😉 )
You’ve lived inside the warning label the rest of us are trying to read. Once state and church braid themselves together, the gospel gets weaponized and the people get sacrificed. Empire never cares which religion it wears, only that the costume still frightens the crowd. And yes, Ghostbusters had it right. Cross the streams and everything explodes.
I love a good skewering, and this one, well I actually did laugh out loud. I don’t usually get very far down the list of all the things Jefferson (and others) had to say about an arranged marriage between the new Republic and Christianity before the contortions are too painful to witness anymore.
You can’t push a string.
Awesome field trip! I’m totally down with the monk speak — have been handing out your prayer cards, even in Texas. Good Christmas presents.🎄
Meant to follow with 🤣😂
Christian nationalism is basically the Byzantines with worse fashion and more Facebook memes
Thanks for this.
👍 This pretty much sums our situation up. Does “getting stoned the Sufi way” mean what I think it means?🤣🤣🤣If so I say here-here🤣 Satire humor and a Sufi party 🥳 helps a lot in our current situation. Not to mention a healthy understanding of what Jesus taught and modeled in the Book of Stories. And here we are repeating history again!! Good grief🤦♀️🤷♀️
It isn’t just theocracy that fails.
Religion itself has already bound God to a throne.
Instead of honoring other faiths, it often rejects them,
and even “I AM WHO I AM” from Exodus 3
has become an idol—revered for its spelling more than its meaning.
I don’t deny the need for the church.
Human beings are fragile, and community can be a refuge.
But the moment the church speaks in the language of exclusion instead of respect,
in the language of superiority instead of worship,
its essence begins to blur—and that is always heartbreaking to witness.
The article isn’t critiquing the church as sanctuary. It’s warning what happens when any religion decides it should run the state. That’s the pivot where reverence becomes control and where Jesus himself refused to play along.
Another thought-provoking post, especially this part:
"But instead He said “My kingdom is not of this world,” which is ancient-Near-Eastern monk speak for “Stop trying to hand me political power, you absolute clowns.”
During my covert phase of deconstructing, I discovered Adyashanti. After reading his book, "Resurrecting Jesus," I began to understand the chokehold that scriptural literalism had on me. Somehow I knew that my spirituality needed to be rescued from those who feared my personal agency. I also began to understand why they would fear it. Those who deconstruct and refuse to be silenced by the patriarchy are a force to be reckoned with.
What you’re describing is something I’ve heard from so many who slipped out of literalism’s grip. Once you taste agency, the old gatekeepers start looking less like holy men and more like security guards for a system that can’t survive honest questions.
And yes. Anyone who deconstructs without losing their voice becomes very inconvenient for the patriarchy. Which is why they try so hard to keep people afraid of their own freedom.
Loved this so much I took out a paid subscription! My first. Hope you feel duly honoured. I hoover up pieces on matters of theology, theodicy and theoeverythingelse. Myself, I lean more towards the teachings of the Buddha, but I was born and raised a Methodist. I'd love to see you concoct a dialogue between JC and the Buddha, looking back at what their words became...
Honored is the easy word. Grateful is the true one. Anyone raised on Methodist hymns and wandering toward the Buddha already speaks the language of seekers who outgrew the borders they were handed. A dialogue between JC and the Buddha would mostly be two men shaking their heads at what we did with their sentences. I’ll brew something worthy of that meeting.
Actually, if you go to https://www.virginmonkboy.com then search for "buddha" you will find a number of satire that carry some hard hitting truths in them. Let me know if you have any problem finding them.
I will do. Out this evening to dine with friends from Bangladesh, so I'll be in the linguistic land of insh'Allah for a while. But I love stepping over borders and colouring outside the lines. My favourite words in the English language are "protean", and "shape-shifter". And being Welsh, I treasure the fact that in the nme
I will certainly do that. Of all the pressing topics that clamour for attention, religion, faith, belief etc always win the day. I'm off now to dine with a Bangladeshi family, so we're heading linguistically into insh'Allah territory. But I love being protean, and take heart from the fact that as a Welshman, we have in the Mabinogion a collection of medieval tales, in which shape-shifting plays a core element: connected to magic and punishment, but also often tied to deception (back to the trickster!), transformation, and redemption.
As a resident in the remains of 'Evil Empire 7 (approx) where state and Church are constitutionally entwined I laughed at your satire (inclusively of course) but it did strike chills because once theocracy takes hold people's lives become worse often to the point of untimely and painful death. I don't wish this on the USA, you have quite enough to contend with already. Also, it isn't exclusive; any religion or part of a religion can climb into bed with empire or empire builders with the same, predictable results.
'Render unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's and unto God what is God's and don't cross the streams' (Gospel Ghostbusters mash up 😉 )
You’ve lived inside the warning label the rest of us are trying to read. Once state and church braid themselves together, the gospel gets weaponized and the people get sacrificed. Empire never cares which religion it wears, only that the costume still frightens the crowd. And yes, Ghostbusters had it right. Cross the streams and everything explodes.
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