THE BAPTIZER
Saturday is a day of recognition of John The Baptist. What do you really know about him? Do you know that the religions of Christianity, Islam, Mandaeanism, and the Bahá'í Faith all consider him a "prophet." Did you know that he was the one that Baptized Jesus in the Jordan at Jesus' request? Did you know he was the cousin of Jesus, who even in the womb recognized the presence of Jesus and jumped for joy leaping for joy in his mother Elizabeth's womb? There is pre-natal cognition and even pre-natal joy.
John the Baptist had his own following- it's intriguing- he was the one crying in the wilderness to make straight the paths of the Lord when everyone thought he was a screaming lunatic, until the Lord came and he passed the mantle.
He lived aesthetically- on wild locusts and honey. You can live on wild locusts and honey. Try it.
He died because his sexual integrity was despised. His witness to the truth was something the powerful couldn't handle.
King Herod was an evil man- way worse than Saddam. You probably remember that Herod killed all the first born and children under the age of 2 in Israel out of a jealous rage in attempt to kill the rumors of the Messiah Jesus which prompted the Holy Family to move for a time to Egypt when Jesus was a baby (Jesus was a displaced child refugee for a time). You probably recall the terrors that he inflicted while he was the head of the provinces of Israel for the Roman Empire. By all accounts he was simply a power hungry pig.
He had no sexual morality, integrity, restraint or continence (this not infrequently comes with unaccountable power). He just took what he wanted. He lusted after and took his own brother's wife to be his lover.
Herodias must have been hot. He didn't care apparently that it was his brother's wife- he wanted her. Herodias had a daughter - apparently equally hot- and she could dance. She could dance better than Nicole around a pole. Herod was in perpetual heat and wanted to see Herodias' dance. Apparently it was not enough he lusted after his brother's wife, he lusted also after her daughter-Salame. So he promised her anything and everything she wanted to see her dance. Anything. Herodias told her to get the head of John the Baptist. Why? Because he threatened her- he disapproved. Clearly, this is an evil to take your brother's wife-- even if she whimpered, sighed, begged, moaned and threw herself at him. Even if she watered all the flowers in the palace gardens and acted like the place was her palace.
Herodias is the Anti-Mary. She looks like she has power, but obtained it illegitimately-she classically slept her way to the top. It wasn't good enough apparently to be the Brother of the King's wife, she wanted the power that the King's wife had- she wanted to be Queen. She is the model-the Patron Anti-Saint- of someone who uses cunning coy sexuality to entice, weaken and ensnare. She is the adulteress who destroyed her husband's trust and broke his heart for the lust of power-and stopped at nothing even pimping her daughter's seductions to achieve it. And she stopped at nothing to hang on to it- she stooped even so low as to demand that the King get rid of that which threatened her position -by killing him.
The holy righteous herald of the Lord was sacrificed for the lust of a horny prelate who wanted to get off on a belly dancing juvenile-as encouraged by her equally depraved Mother of all Hag-Sluts.
And so it was- the horny Herod got his dance, and John the Baptist met his fate on a platter.
And what do you kill- what righteous life giving message of Jesus' love do you pre-emptively kill off before you even hear it, what potential for salvation and life do you extinguish in your lust? What do you take illicitly without authority, whose affections do you appropriate and alienate? Who is the hag-slut demanding more and more attention and devotion in your life to a point where you are blinded to any sense of morality, crowding out love for illicit desire?
John the Baptist, the dearly dearly beloved cousin of Jesus, died for the lust of a prelate pig and the bitter jealousy of an old hag-slut.
He dies all over again every time you take what is not yours, and don't take care of what is.
John the Baptist Baptized people- ritually cleansed them in water, in the Jordan river.
Go and dunk yourself in holy water on his feast day and pray that you don't behead him ever again.
Saturday is a day of recognition of John The Baptist. What do you really know about him? Do you know that the religions of Christianity, Islam, Mandaeanism, and the Bahá'í Faith all consider him a "prophet." Did you know that he was the one that Baptized Jesus in the Jordan at Jesus' request? Did you know he was the cousin of Jesus, who even in the womb recognized the presence of Jesus and jumped for joy leaping for joy in his mother Elizabeth's womb? There is pre-natal cognition and even pre-natal joy.
John the Baptist had his own following- it's intriguing- he was the one crying in the wilderness to make straight the paths of the Lord when everyone thought he was a screaming lunatic, until the Lord came and he passed the mantle.
He lived aesthetically- on wild locusts and honey. You can live on wild locusts and honey. Try it.
He died because his sexual integrity was despised. His witness to the truth was something the powerful couldn't handle.
King Herod was an evil man- way worse than Saddam. You probably remember that Herod killed all the first born and children under the age of 2 in Israel out of a jealous rage in attempt to kill the rumors of the Messiah Jesus which prompted the Holy Family to move for a time to Egypt when Jesus was a baby (Jesus was a displaced child refugee for a time). You probably recall the terrors that he inflicted while he was the head of the provinces of Israel for the Roman Empire. By all accounts he was simply a power hungry pig.
He had no sexual morality, integrity, restraint or continence (this not infrequently comes with unaccountable power). He just took what he wanted. He lusted after and took his own brother's wife to be his lover.
Herodias must have been hot. He didn't care apparently that it was his brother's wife- he wanted her. Herodias had a daughter - apparently equally hot- and she could dance. She could dance better than Nicole around a pole. Herod was in perpetual heat and wanted to see Herodias' dance. Apparently it was not enough he lusted after his brother's wife, he lusted also after her daughter-Salame. So he promised her anything and everything she wanted to see her dance. Anything. Herodias told her to get the head of John the Baptist. Why? Because he threatened her- he disapproved. Clearly, this is an evil to take your brother's wife-- even if she whimpered, sighed, begged, moaned and threw herself at him. Even if she watered all the flowers in the palace gardens and acted like the place was her palace.
Herodias is the Anti-Mary. She looks like she has power, but obtained it illegitimately-she classically slept her way to the top. It wasn't good enough apparently to be the Brother of the King's wife, she wanted the power that the King's wife had- she wanted to be Queen. She is the model-the Patron Anti-Saint- of someone who uses cunning coy sexuality to entice, weaken and ensnare. She is the adulteress who destroyed her husband's trust and broke his heart for the lust of power-and stopped at nothing even pimping her daughter's seductions to achieve it. And she stopped at nothing to hang on to it- she stooped even so low as to demand that the King get rid of that which threatened her position -by killing him.
The holy righteous herald of the Lord was sacrificed for the lust of a horny prelate who wanted to get off on a belly dancing juvenile-as encouraged by her equally depraved Mother of all Hag-Sluts.
And so it was- the horny Herod got his dance, and John the Baptist met his fate on a platter.
And what do you kill- what righteous life giving message of Jesus' love do you pre-emptively kill off before you even hear it, what potential for salvation and life do you extinguish in your lust? What do you take illicitly without authority, whose affections do you appropriate and alienate? Who is the hag-slut demanding more and more attention and devotion in your life to a point where you are blinded to any sense of morality, crowding out love for illicit desire?
John the Baptist, the dearly dearly beloved cousin of Jesus, died for the lust of a prelate pig and the bitter jealousy of an old hag-slut.
He dies all over again every time you take what is not yours, and don't take care of what is.
John the Baptist Baptized people- ritually cleansed them in water, in the Jordan river.
Go and dunk yourself in holy water on his feast day and pray that you don't behead him ever again.
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