Gospel of John or someone else

[mnaz]

Shoulda called this Gospel of Thomas... Oh John, how he mocked poor old "doubting Thomas." No wonder Thomas- or whoever actually wrote the thing- missed the final Canon cut. How did that Bishop put it back then? "Fictions of heretics," something like that... would have been burned alongside all those other spurious accounts if some monk hadn't buried them out in the desert... finally found in 1945 in all their earthen, heretical glory... 1945 was a surreal year, kinda like a tipping point.

[creativesoul]

I dunno- I never know what I guess I'm supposed to know-
I am floating in a world of aliens-

[mnaz]

I feel that. Gets more alien all the time..

[Doreen Peri]

I believe you're right ....

[mnaz]

... mostly just my overall sense of how things may have progressed (or not) to this point-- our faiths, institutions, and all that goes with them. It's interesting (to me at least) to read about the "gospel era"-- what we know about it, though this historical knowledge is filled with gaps...

[creativesoul]

Ominist

[mnaz]

Om.

[creativesoul]

God is a member

[mnaz]

Maybe it was better when we had God (except maybe not all that Biblical genocide and all..) What do we worship now? The Rod? The bomb blasts of Bombast?

[creativesoul]

There is a God in every religion- I'm more afraid of people than God.. I can find God everywhere- even inside me-

[mnaz]

... the divine within. "The Kingdom of Heaven Is Spread Upon The Earth But Men Do Not See It.” (from Thomas). Maybe those gnostics were onto something. Maybe not.

[still.trucking]

mnaz wrote
What do we worship now? The Rod? The bomb blasts of Bombast?

oh yes
praise the lord and pass the twitter™
gimme that old time religion
when we knew who was on our

can't never get this one by Glorious Amuck out of my head

...altho i always wondered
if jesus hadda been shot insteada hung onna stick
would today's folks wear little pistols round their necks?
and fathers hand them down to sons
on birthdays and graduations, sayin...
"here boy, this'll keep you saved.
talk to this when you need to."

...and then i realize that yeah,
they already do.
viewtopic.php?f=106&t=19016&p=10783&hilit=jesus#p10783

[mnaz]

I never forgot that one either. I was thinking about all the time I spent down in Vegas... Sometimes it seems just a matter of time before the sea of guns rises up and comes for me...

[68degrees]

John was a good guy, I think. How often is one mistaken for a Messiah, step back, and say, "Not me...him."