| |
Jesus commits mistakes. He talks about loving your enemies, even loving your neighbors. I wonder: he has forgotten to tell you, "Love your wives too, your husbands too." And I think it is a tautology, loving your enemies and loving your neighbors -- they are the same people.
One day it happened that he passed two, three villages and they were not welcoming; they were angry, they closed their doors. They did not give him food or water, or shelter. So he was getting angry, although he says that you should not be angry, you should always be pure love -- love even the enemy.
And then hungry and thirsty he comes to a tree, and although it is not the season for the tree to give fruits -- but when you are angry you are blind -- he curses the tree, a fig tree, saying, "You have insulted the only begotten son of God by not producing figs!"
Now it is not the season, and the fig tree has no concern with any God. She is not even aware that the only begotten son is hungry. And he curses the tree: "You will be condemned forever!"
Now this man talks about forgiveness as the greatest virtue, anger as a sin? Certainly he himself cannot practice what he is saying in his sermons. He is as fallible as any human being.
I am not condemning him, I am simply saying he is fallible.
Only these idiot popes are infallible. And there are thousands of instances which prove that they are fallible.
One pope ordered that a great investigation should be made about a young woman, Joan of Arc. The investigation was made. The whole country loved the woman because she had been fighting for the country and she had achieved freedom for the country. This angered the pope, that she was being worshipped more than him.
His investigation team proved that she was possessed by spirits, the devil was at work. The woman was burnt alive. The whole country was shocked.
After three hundred years, seeing that the wound in the country's heart had not healed and they were still angry at the pope -- although that pope was gone and some other pope had taken his place -- the pope thought, "It is better to console the people. It is dangerous to let them move
|
|
|