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The government in the Indian state of Meghalaya has confiscated textbooks showing pictures of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette and a can of beer. State Education Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh said legal action against the publishers was being contemplated.
Perhaps it was in a magician’s handbook, and the beer represented an intermediate stage in turning water into wine? The cigarette would come in handy as a kind of magic wand that could also produce a smoke screen.
posted on February 19, 2010You don't have permission to flag this entry.
Makes you wonder what type of beer and cigarettes Jesus would consume.
How about ...
Cigarettes: Benson and Hedges
Beer: Samuel Adams’ Utopias ($150 per bottle).
Jesus could read — “He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read.” (Luke 4:16) — which was an anomaly among folks who followed him. Apparently, most rural Galilee peasants during his time were unlettered. With Jesus being a charismatic, semi-educated leader of illiterate, lower-class peasants, he’d probably want to smoke a refined cigarette that made him look astute, hence Benson and Hedges.
Why Samuel Adams’ Utopias? It’s one of the world’s most expensive beers, and we know that Jesus cared little about thrift and saving — “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.” (Matthew 6:34, American King James Bible Version).
posted on February 19, 2010You don't have permission to flag this entry.
Brilliant. Must be a miracle as tobacco and tin cans were not around 2000 years ago. Unless he has returned and is just doing some product placement.
posted on February 21, 2010You don't have permission to flag this entry.
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But, why was Jesus pictured with the beer and cigarette?
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