....you find out what people are really made of. At this time of year,you encounter the gambler,the tramp,the thief,the burglar,the beggar, the get-rich-quick type, the confirmed spinster,the widower,the needy,the greedy,the fool and the tomboy.
Why so? Because at this time of year,most financial and emotional demands are made on adults and parents and most people are fazed. When people are at the end of their tether in a difficult situation,you find out their true character....
The beggar? Sometimes his life has been so difficult from childhood that he can not see beyond his next lotto ticket or next meal and has no money to buy one,so he begs....
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Likewise,at Christmas,your false and bogus friends for a day-I am referring to Catholic and Protestant businessmen- will show their inherent resentment,envy and antipathy towards you for furnishing them with the means of support (and not bringing a loose woman into your bedroom) with a show of resiling from judgement in an important matter. That matter is one requiring strong clerical assistance or indicate a disposition towards recusing themselves from a moral dilemma.
Likewise,at this time of year,a curate will speak for the whole parish if you are anything remotely approaching normal in an abnormal and contradictory world. He will speak up with bitter and hostile rhetoric. That is what at Easter turns to murder at the hands of the clergy. They were the people who had Jesus killed,them and the Temple Guard/Police.
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Read all about it?
Read the Bible! Ignore naysayers and doom-mongers,they were the ultimate beneficiaries of Jesus's death....
Who,I hear you ask?
Soldiers and paramilitary gangs such as those mobilised by every government in danger of being overwhelmed by hostile individuals or forces, not forgetting the occasional lay preacher and would-be politician.
You will see everyone in their true colours at Christmas and New Year and you will also meet your nemesis at Easter because that is when Jesus was crucified.
Independent proof of that exists.
Independent proof of his resurrection is sketchy but many Christians regard it as conclusive.
