Sunday Go to Meeting and Steal This Meme

The theme of this meme has been variously rendered over recent years, but I’m stealing it to make my own meme in response to the tide of anti-immigrant spew filling oozing from the painted pie holes of Bozos in the GOP clown stretch-limousine. Putting that way isn’t very Christian of me, but then I’m not a Christian. Let’s go New Testament–Matthew 19:24:

πάλιν δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν, εὐκοπώτερόν ἐστιν κάμηλον διὰ τρυπήματος ῥαφίδος εἰσελθεῖν ἢ πλούσιον εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ.

Yeah, the New Testament is written in Greek. Camel. Eye of needle. Rich man. Use your cyborg prosthesis.

Also, too–Here’s a poem I wrote in 2010:

A Day in the Life of the Risen Jesus

Jesus is homeless.
Jesus hasn’t had a shower
or a haircut
or a shave
in a long, long time.

Jesus sleeps in a cardboard box
down by the river,
dreaming of sweet Mary Magdalene.

Jesus rises with the sun,
washes his hands with water from a plastic jug.

Jesus kneels on his dirty sleeping bag,
and chants the Shema:

The Lord our God is One…

Jesus walks a mile to the labor pool,
looking for a day’s work.

Jesus speaks Spanish fluently;
with his olive skin he could be mestizo.
Jesus is a hard worker and knows some carpentry.

Jesus usually goes out on a job
with a construction or lawn crew.

Jesus could make foreman,
but he drinks a little.
Jesus often disappears for days and weeks
and no one knows where.

Blessed be the Unspoken Name
and the Unseen Kingdom…

Jesus cashes his paycheck at FastCash,
crosses the street to the liquor store
lays down money for the jug wine
he will share with his friends
down by the river.

And you shall love the Lord, your God
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
and with all your might.

Jesus stays up late
drinking and talking with his brothers, brother to all.
Jesus didn’t come to save, this time.
There’ll be no healing, this time.
No miracles, this time.
No water into wine, even when the bottle’s empty.

These words will command you today in your heart:
teach the children.

Jesus washes his hands
with water from the plastic jug,
under unseen stars.

Jesus chants the Shema:

when you sit at home,
when you walk along the way,
when you lie down and when you rise up.

 

Sunday-go-to-Meeting Comic

That is what manic epiphany is kind of like. Kind of like getting mugged, like Paul was mugged by Jesus on the road to Damascus. Friend Spike says,

Those to whom epiphany is done do evil in return. The error of “God”—vibrato within me like a universe supersaturated with dashboard Jesuses.

 

A Day in the Life of the Risen Jesus

Jesus is homeless.
Jesus hasn’t had a shower
or a haircut
or a shave
in a long, long time.

Jesus sleeps in a cardboard box
down by the river,
dreaming of sweet Mary Magdalene.

Jesus rises with the sun,
washes his hands with water from a plastic jug.

Jesus kneels on his dirty sleeping bag,
and chants the Shema:

The Lord our God is One…

Jesus walks a mile to the labor pool,
looking for a day’s work.

Jesus speaks Spanish fluently;
with his olive skin he could be mestizo.
Jesus is a hard worker and knows some carpentry.

Jesus usually goes out on a job
with a construction or lawn crew.

Jesus could make foreman,
but he drinks a little.
Jesus often disappears for days and weeks
and no one knows where.

Blessed be the Unspoken Name
and the Unseen Kingdom…

Jesus cashes his paycheck at FastCash,
crosses the street to the liquor store
lays down money for the jug wine
he will share with his friends
down by the river.

And you shall love the Lord, your God
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
and with all your might.

Jesus stays up late
drinking and talking with his brothers, brother to all.
Jesus didn’t come to save, this time.
There’ll be no healing, this time.
No miracles, this time.
No water into wine, even when the bottle’s empty.

These words will command you today in your heart:
teach the children.

Jesus washes his hands
with water from the plastic jug,
under unseen stars.

Jesus chants the Shema:

when you sit at home,
when you walk along the way,
when you lie down and when you rise up.