Vote for Jesus

Have you ever heard the saying truth is stranger than fiction? There's a lot of truth in it. We think that things are only true when they add up somehow in some sensible way and then we are usually disappointed to learn otherwise. If someone in 1973 would have said that the president of the U.S. was busting into offices, he would have been ridiculed for making an 'absurd insinuation'. No, not the president! Not our good little flag waving leader! And it was true. If someone would have spoke out in Nazi Germany to say that people were being systematically wiped out in gas chambers, he would have been denounced by all as a madman. Even our own side had to wait to see the horrible evidence with their own eyes before they believed it. By then it was too late. What made my erased posts so humorous to George Carlin's fans was my truth. Truth is absurd and we reflexively laugh at the absurd. I have a gift for capturing the absurdity of truth in my dialogues, poems, and statements, which has earned a pile of money for the liars who stole them. And some people dismiss the parables of Christ as absurdities, but they are nonetheless widely accepted as brilliant spiritual teachings. They seem absurd on the surface, based on logical evaluation, but they feel true. Anyone who dismisses a truthful allegation as an 'absurd insinuation' would also have likely rejected Christ's teachings on the same grounds. And you all know who dismissed truthful allegations as absurd insinuations: the so-called born again president!
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A Time to Every Purpose

The Book of Ecclesiastes - did I spell that right? - is a book of wisdom, like Proverbs. Most people have heard the famous Byrds hit Turn Turn Turn, which quotes directly from this source. There is an important lesson in these words, which has helped to ease my suffering through all these years of lies and hate. There is a time to every purpose under Heaven. So that means that there is a time for things we sometimes don't want to happen, a time to kill, for instance, but that there is also a favorable time, a time to heal. I extend this to accept that there is a time for lies and a time for truth. The time for lies is wartime, according to the famous adage, the first casualty of war is truth. America was gearing up for a war when I first shared my truth. I tried to have an impact but my efforts were in vain. It was not a time for truth. It was a time for lies. The time for truth will be my time, and I believe it is approaching. I am glad I do not belong to the time for lies because that is behind me and I want to look forward to my future.
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Suffer the Students

Even as an atheist, which I declared myself to be for many years, I took inspiration from the story of Christ. The only difference was that I felt free to mock the Scriptures here and there, something I dare not do any more. (My cartoon character, the Holy Roller, is merely intended to parody bad evangelists.) My sense of God's presence and of the existence of an afterlife has come to me by intuition and I have learned that my intuition is highly reliable by the exercise of rejecting this mindset in late 2007, after my first conversion experience, and experiencing all the horrors that resulted from this decision. I'm a little ashamed that my faith was not strong enough to sustain me the first time, but I am relieved that I have been given a second chance to stand up for the Lord in this very evil time in history. One advantage that Christians have over adherents of other faiths is that Christ knows our suffering. Unlike all other deities, He submitted to the humiliation of pain and death. When we are in pain, we can be comforted by praying to a God who knows our pain. And since we are all doomed to die, we can turn to Christ for comfort at any point along our fateful passage. There are a lot of suffering souls out there and they are all welcome to visit me here. If you're a student who gets picked on in class, I hope you can compare your situation with mine and gain some real perspective. Had this gang rape of my music and comedy occurred when I was younger, I might not have survived this long. But once you get out of that classroom, the consent of your peers becomes less and less important.
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Selling Christ Short

I have always been interested in information around the life of Jesus. One prominent researcher in this area is Elaine Pagels, whose book, The Origin of Satan, first suggested to me the possibility that the official Christian account of Christ's execution was altered to make it acceptable to the Romans. It is a compelling argument, backed up by strong evidence describing Pilate as the kind of governor who would crucify people at the drop of a hat, but it fails to heed the extraordinary nature of Christ and how his presence often led people to behave out of character. The extraordinary nature of Christ, even outside of his arguable miracles, was that this common carpenter's son who was doomed to suffer a slave's execution would be worshiped as God incarnate by billions of humans for millennia following his death. I believe that such greatness has a way of reaching back to its source from the future, endowing the person with a kind of larger-than-life aura. Peter had a good solid career as a fisherman and all it took was one visit from Christ, a total stranger, to make Peter abandon his livelihood and follow Christ all the way to his own crucifixion. So perhaps Pilate was equally moved by Christ's presence and determined not to take responsibility for his death. If the Prefect of Judea intuited that he was about to execute the future God of the Roman empire, it would certainly trouble him. I think the source of antisemitism is essentially religious and centers on the refusal of Jews to accept Christ as their Messiah. I think this would exist free and clear of how Christ's execution is depicted in the Bible. Antisemitism is the result of misinterpreting the brilliant teachings of Christ, for most Christians do not hate Jews. And some Jews have even converted to Christianity. There's an organization called Jews for Jesus that may support me in this argument, even though I'm a Gentile. March 7, 2015: Since this is a sensitive topic, I must be careful how I present this argument. I do not wish to add any more hate to the world. I agree that it was the Romans who killed Jesus. But I also believe that Jewish religious authorities were threatened by Jesus and wanted him killed. They thought he was a false prophet and a dangerous influence on the crowds. Jewish laws are quite specific in the Old Testament on how to handle anyone who might equate himself with the Most High God. Such a man was to be killed. But in Christ's lifetime, Israel, or Judea, was under Roman occupation. The Romans enforced the laws of their provinces and punished anyone who might try to do so in their place. So the Jewish religious authorities needed the permission of Roman authorities to execute Jesus or perhaps these High Priests would have ended up on crosses themselves. So Jesus, the way I see it, was killed by both the Jews and the Gentiles. All of humanity is responsible for his death. And while the Gospel of John may unfairly quote the Jews as wishing to take collective responsibility for this blood guilt, its depiction of his manner of execution on a Roman cross equally blames the Romans. Yes, and let's not forget what makes Christ great: his death and resurrection. How could Christ accomplish his holy mission without going to the cross? His cruel execution was necessary. To impose punishment on his perceived murderers is to contradict God's plan.
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A Note on Immortality

I would like to explain the moral of one of my short stories, Immortality, written in a rather naive and yet undeveloped style back in 2004. The story is about a penny pinching asshole who gets scientists to lengthen his lifespan indefinitely so he will not have to part with his money. As he ages, he is wounded by tragedies that make him less enthusiastic about his life in this world. As he ages, he also grows wise and with this wisdom he comes to value his money less and less. The story ends with his suicide, when he finally realizes that he can not cheat death in a world that was only designed for temporary use. Do not wait until you are on your deathbed to realize what is truly important in this life. By then it may be too late.
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Easy to Believe in Hell

Some people wonder how I can endure this terrible time of injustice when I stand alone against a vast, evil apparatus like the out-of-control U.S. arms industry. This is where my faith in God comes in. In order to accept unjust suffering, we need to see some reason for it. We need to see why God allows evil like Dick Cheney and George Bush and NBC to take root in our world and cause so much harm. My experience as an artist helps me to answer the question. When Christ was being led to his cruel execution, he said 'Now is the time when the power of darkness prevails.' Darkness is essential to our world. My drawings demand dark areas which help to define the illuminated ones. There can be no light without darkness and there can be no good without evil. This is why there are evil, damned souls sharing this world with the righteous. This is why there must be a Hell to dispense with the otherwise destructive presence of the hateful on the scale of eternity. My foreknowledge of the divine justice which awaits the souls of the wicked who defy me lets me accept whatever fleeting gains they may make in this fleeting reality.
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Too Big for History

Don't let the lack of secular references to Jesus in the history books discourage you from believing in him. He was here, but the media of his time didn't think he was important. When I look back on the last seven years and I see who's been getting all the credit and glory from my songs and blogs, it's easy for me to see how Christ's greatness would also have been overlooked by the people of his time. Given the lack of integrity of people charged with keeping such records, Christ's omission from the history books might even be considered as proof positive that he was, in fact, here. (I am also doubtful that I am related to Wolfe Tone.)
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