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This is chapter two, but really, it’s part two of chapter one. This is the completing story of the dead Smartian, which as we’re about to see is directly opposite of the story of the good Smartian. There’s a good chance you have heard of the story of the dead Smartian but didn’t realize it because right now it’s not known as the dead Smartian, no right now it’s simply known as Trump’s snake poem. But this is a book about the teachings of Jesus so what is a story being taught by Donald Trump has to do with the teachings of Jesus? Because Trump’s snake poem is really a parable and Jesus taught in parables. Now here’s Donald Trump comes along in 2015, with what many religious leaders called at the time, including former presidential candidate Pat Robertson, a mandate from God. If Donald Trump has a mandate from God, then it’s reasonable to assume, and many have assumed, that Donald Trump was sent by God just like Jesus. The old men in my previous Sundy school class would tell that there’s no question about it, not a single doubt, God definitely sent Donald Trump to be the president. Then early in his campaign rallies he begins to tell the parable of the snake. Yes, here’s a man “sent by God ” that teaches in parables, just like Jesus did! But what is the parable that God sent Donald Trump to deliver to the American people?
I will explain Trump’s Dead Smartian Story, if you haven’t ever heard of it, there are many examples of Trump telling the story on the internet because he told it countless times many of the videos contain the cheers and yells from the crowd, who are complete agreement. Trump told the Story of the Dead Smartian from his campaign, throughout his presidency, even now he still tells this story today at his rallies. And yet I don’t believe there’s been one single conservative preacher who has said anything negative about this story, oh their quick to disagree with Jesus on the Story of the Good Smartian, but not a word about Trump’s story of the Dead Smartian.
So, here’s Trump favorite story that he loves to tell over and over, maybe because it’s a story “inspired” from God just like the Bible. Back when I was a little boy our church hymnal didn’t have Victory in Jesus, so our music director pasted a copy in the back of all the hymnals. Maybe that’s what all the conservatives should do, take a copy of Trump’s Dead Smartian and paste it in the back of their Bibles, you know, where their Bibles are now complete. So if you haven’t had the great pleasure to hear Trump tell the story I’ll will now tell it to you in my own special way: A silly woman, I mean that was the dingiest blonde to ever live, walks down a path and sees a half frozen snake lying on the side of the path, instead of going to the far side of the path, like people that have sense would do, the silly, dingy blonde picked up the snake and took it to her house. Then the silly, dingy blonde gave the snake Milk and Honey. What did she read that snakes love Milk and Honey somewhere on the internet? Then the snake woke up and gave the silly, dingy blonde a vicious bite. Then the blonde says why did you bite me now I will die. Then the snake says, yes it’s a talking snake! The snake says, and Trump doesn’t tell this part, the snake says, I hate Milk and Honey! Then, as Trump says the talking snake tells the blonde you knew I was a snake when you took me in! In some versions Trump also says the talking snake says I bite you because it’s my nature! So there you have it, I hope you now see why you should paste this in the back of your Bible. Yes that defiantly belongs in the Bible. And, this is sad part about, there are many white Southern Baptist Pastors who would not object to doing that.
Why should this parable of the snake be renamed the dead Smartian? Because as I discussed in the first chapter Jesus didn’t finish the story of The Good Smartian. After the Good Smartian took care of the beaten man all night, he had to go the next morning, so he gave the innkeeper money, out of his own pocket, and told him, upon my return if you should need more money, I will pay you more money upon my return. But that’s the end of the story, according to Jesus, so God must had sent Donald Trump to finish Jesus’s story. So, this is as Paul Harvey used to say, The Rest of the Story. The Good Smartian returns to the inn, just as he said he would, he walks into the inn and finds the innkeeper lying dead behind the counter, he then enters the back room and waiting behind the door was the injured man that the Good Smartian saved, but it turns out the injured man was really a snake who gave the Good Smartian a vicious bite. The Good Smartian was shocked and said to what was now a snake why did you bite me now I will die? And the snake replied You knew I was a snake when you picked me up, that’s my nature! So, there you have it the Rest of the story of the Good Smartian. Praise be to God for sending Donald Trump to finally finish the story of the Good Smartian! The Preist and Levite were right, just as conservatives believe today the Preist and Levite did right by passing the man on the other side because they knew he was a snake! That makes the story of the Good Smartian so much easier to follow if you believe the new meaning then you never have to help anyone, they could turn out to be a snaked. The Preist and Levite saw the injured man and most importantly, they heard him begging for help in a language other than Hebrew, so they knew the man had to be a a snake and probably got exactly what that snake received was what he deserved!
Milk and Honey is important as a theme for the Story of the Dead Smartian and nothing else is more important to understand than the meaning and importance of Milk and Honey in this story. It may be a minor part of this story, but what Donald Trump did in his first week of being the President of the United States, is, as they say is a game changer. As part of the decoration of the Oval Office Donald Trump made the choice, some say in was Steve Bannon’s idea, but as Harry Truman Placed the plague that reads “The buck stops here” on his Oval Office desk, it’s Donald Trump’s responsibility what is placed on the walls of the people’s Oval Office. Hanging in a place of honor, The Oval Office of the President of the United States, is the portrait of Andrew Jackson and it appears it’s hanging on the same wall that Richard Nixon took his picture with Elvis. Yes Elvis Presley, look it up. So what’s wrong that after all Andrew Jackson was a war hero of the War of 1812 and he didn’t get captured! He was the 7th President of the United States and is on the twenty dollar bill. But Trump didn’t place a portrait of Jackson because he was a war hero or on the twenty dollar bill. Jackson’s portrait was placed there for only one reason. Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and is responsible for the most racist, immoral, un-American action in the history of our nation that was founded on the principle that all men are created equal. Notice The Indian Removal Act of 1830 is not called The Native-American Removal Act of 1830? That’s because the Indians living in the United States were not citizens of the United States. But if your born in the United States aren’t you automatically a citizen? Isn’t that in the US Constitution? No, becoming an US citizen by birth was not the law of the land until after the Civil War during Reconstruction in 1866. But these two events, The Trail of Tears and the Civil War are related to the whole idea of citizenship. It was feared by Northern legislators that the South would retaliate against the now freed slaves by repeating the same disgraceful actions as Jackson. They were afraid, and I believe their fear was totally justified, that the southern states would round up all the black people and march them out of their state, how many would die like the Indians did? Black lives didn’t matter! So The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed to prevent after years of a bloody Civil War history would not repeat itself and have how many death marches in the United States of America? The Civil Rights Act of 1866 stated that anyone born on US soil was a citizen, well everyone except Indians! Yes Indians were still the 19th century “illegals”. Where does Milk and Honey come into this story well OK right now.
In the Bible God made the Hebrews, the Jews what is known as God’s chosen people. Not that the Hebrews were any better than anyone else, nor did God love the Hebrews more than other groups. For God so loved the world, that includes everyone, but God’s chosen people were chosen as an example how to follow God and more times than not how to disobey and turn away from God. It’s a simple explanation there’s a lot more to God’s chosen people and the promised land, but not to be get bogged down here, and you can find a lot more people better than me at explaining this relationship. So, let’s just leave it like this: In the Bible, the Old Testament, God has his chosen people The Hebrews, Israelites, Jews, all the same people, and he promised they a promised land flowing with Milk and Honey, which is now known as the nation of Israel. Now I want to make this Crystral clear in the Bible, in The Old Testament, in The New Testament including the book of Revelation, does the Bible say that God has another ” chosen people” and another promised land for this other group of God’s other “chosen people” with another promised land. However, Conservatives have no problem believing these what the Bible refers to as false teachings. Every 4th of July the conservative’s pastors, including mine pastor, will proudly proclaim these false teachings saying that the founding fathers founded the United States as a “Christian Nation” and the founding of the United States was totally build on the Bible. Every year it seems we find even more sighers of the Constitution that are now, not over two hundred years ago, are now proclaimed to be Christians. Now isn’t that special! The false teaching that the United States of America is God’s promised land to the white Christian, not Catholics, white evangelical Christian people, is alive and well today. Never forget, our white evangelical Christian nation is being invaded, yes as Republicans will say there’s no other word to describe it than invasion, by brown Catholic snakes!
If you could look at the Face Book posts from the 1830s, and they are really hard to find, you wouldn’t find much difference between them and today’s posts. The whole idea of America being the land of Milk and Honey goes back to the founding. God created America where white evangelical Christian, not brown Catholics, people had a homeland and just like the Promised Land in the Bible there were people already living here. What to do about these people, well really savages who mostly murder and rape our white women come to think about it their really snakes just waiting to give us vicious bites if we help them and then we would die. You would find many posts with this theme and just as much hatred as today’s conservative posts. Just like the savages the Illegals of today are hated for being in a country that God had providence, designed especially to be the homeland of white Christian people. Now when I refer to white Christian people it’s understood that doesn’t include Catholics because God didn’t mean The United States to be a “Catholic Nation” no it’s a “Christian Nation”. Just as the white Christians of the 1830s saw no problem with Andrew Jackson use of the US Army to march Indians out of our Christian nation, today’s white Christians see no problem with Donald Trump sending the US Army to the southern border to stop Catholics from coming to our white Christian nation. Today’s US white Christians firmly believe that: For God so loved the world, but God’s love stops at the southern border. The white Christian nations says to the invading Catholics: for they were hungry and feed them not, they were naked, and we clothed them not, they were thirsty, and we gave no drink, they were sick and we ministered not, they were strangers, and we would not let them in. And many will say to Jesus: did I not cast out these illegals, these murderers, these rapists, yes these DEMONS out in thine name. Did I not separate the children from the parents in thine name? I have done all this to keep the United States a white Christian Nation just as God The Father wanted!
Trump’s story of the Dead Smartian goes right along with these false teachings of the United States as another land of Milk and Honey and the conservative pastors of the United States see no problem whatsoever with going along with, and no way will they say anything, not one single word, against the Dead Smartian parable because they are very much aware if they preach against this parable that would collide with their other false teaching that God sent Donald Trump just like God sent his only begotten son, Jesus. Complete silence is complete agreement, you can put that on a T shirt. I’ll give just two examples of how conservative pastors are changing their sermons in order to indulge the political believes of their congregation. Summer of 2021 the 4th of July happened to be on a Sunday. My pastor did the usual 4th sermon with all the Christians that founded our great nation as a Christain country. Then he must had changed the sermon to what’s wrong with America today. What is wrong with America? How about Black Lives Matter? My pastor did start out with what happened to George Floyd was wrong but then those Black Lives Matter people started all these riots and right there is where it begun all over the congregation begins shouting AMEN! AMEN! people sitting by me Tell them preacher Preach ON! I was almost sure a couple of people almost ran to the pulpit to hug the preacher. My pastor kept going on and on about all the terrible things that Black Lives Matters does, me, I just sat there thinking SHOULD I SHOUT OUT JANUARY 6TH? No, I didn’t I waited for the pastor to say something about it. It may be hard to believe but my pastor who had such strong conventions about Black Lives Matter had absolutely nothing whatsoever to say about January 6th, imagine that! Just less than six months later when the Capitol of the United States was attacked, and five Americans died that day, but not one word about that day? Remember how I said I had two examples of conservative preaching today? My sister and our daddy live with me, and Daddy requires full-time care, so we take turns going to church, I go one week then my sister goes the next week. When I home with Daddy on Sunday morning, I usually watch First Baptist service on TV. One Sunday a while back the First Baptist pastor, whom I like a lot and my older brother was a deacon at First Baptist before he had to move to Texas because of his job, so I have no problem with First Baptist or with anyone who attends there. It was time for First Baptist to have what us Baptist call The Lord’s Supper; others call it Communion. You should not partake in The Lord’s Supper if your heart is not right with God or your fellow man. The sermon was going just fine the Pastor’s regular incredible explanation of scripture. And then the sermon changed suddenly, the pastor I don’t think had a clue that sermon that he was leading into dangerous territory but was because he said just one word, ten years ago no problem with this one word, but that was ten years ago not today. The one word he was about to preach to us was a word called TRUTH! What is truth, how do you about the truth, is there a difference between truth and a lie? The Pastor was doing great following scripture a good talk about truth and then I thought are going give an example about truth or a lie, and just then he gave his example about the difference between truth and a lie. He told a joke about Oprah Winfrey, yes Oprah, why I haven’t a clue maybe Oprah made a promise about releasing her taxes or said elections are rigged. I didn’t get the joke maybe because I don’t watch Fox News. But what lie could he use as now being accepted as a truth? Nothing from Donald Trump, it’s obvious this is another conservative pastor who accepted the Dead Smartian as truth sent by God. As tragic as these statements from two proud conservative pastors preaching behind the pulpit what is posted on Face Book is even worse. Just today a conservative Southern Baptist pastor who is now the pastor of the Southern Baptist Church I grew up in, posted a drawing of a donkey Kneeling in prayer beside his bed praying something to the effect of, “Lord please make everyone forget for what we have done to America”. Below the drawing was the caption; Let us bray!
I think these examples are what: unbelievable, unimaginable that these three pastors apparently are not any different from the vast majority of conservative pastors across the United States of America. Maybe more disturbing is all the laughs the Amens the likes and comments of agreement and the shares on Face Book. Yes, pastors are more concerned with how many likes and shares than how many people will come to know Christ. Why did my pastor say nothing about January 6th? The simple answer: he wanted to keep his job and he knows he cannot say anything that does not agree with conservative politics. I read an article that claimed there are more pastors leaving the ministry today than ever before, the main reason is that they are afraid of saying anything to contradict conservative politics, they are afraid to say what they believe so they choose to leave their ministries instead of standing up for what is right. The First Baptist situation was different, he has ready announced his retirement so since this was one of his last sermons why did he choose to use a black woman as an example, instead of, for instance what is known as the “Big Lie” where on January 6th four people who believed the “Big Lie” gave their very lives for that lie, and others murdered a Capitol policeman for the same lie. And yet nothing is said behind America’s pulpits. I really don’t understand why these pastors said nothing and other’s post on Face Book for the whole lost world to see.
Could the answer be that the conservative pastors have scripture to back their acceptance of Trump’s parable? The basic believe is that America is being invaded by poisonous snakes and if we do nothing then they will bite us and we will all die. Where in scripture is there a description of people being bitten by poisonous snakes and dying? In the book of Numbers during the 40 years wandering in the wilderness this occurs:
NUMBERS 6-9
6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
8 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
This might be an obscure passage that few people that go to church all the time would know about but that’s not the case. Not because of John 3:16 no it’s because of John 3:14 when Jesus said:
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so shall the son of man be lifted up
There has always been only one explanation of John 3:14. Jesus is referring to himself upon the cross and to have life you must look towards the cross for salvation. To understand what’s going on in third John, and why Jesus used a story about being bitten by poisonous snakes, the reason why Jesus used this story, instead of the many other stories he could had used is because who it was that Jesus was telling this story to. In third John verse one describes a man named Nicodemus who was an important Pharisee, a ruler of the Jews, who came to Jesus at night, because he didn’t won’t anyone seeing him talking to Jesus, and this is what Nicodemus said to Jesus: verse 2 Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God, for no man can do these miracles, that thou doest, except God be with him. Nicodemus was aware there was something very different about Jesus, how he spoke with someone has authority, and did great miracles. Since Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews and a Pharisee there was one thing Nicodemus new well, in fact, he more than likely he memorized most of the Old Testament which was all they had at the time. Yes, Nicodemus new the story of poisonous snakes biting the Israelites and the meaning of the pole Moses placed in the center of the camp. Now this is just my idea here, but could it be that the previous Sabbath, Did Nicodemus actually preach on this very story about the poisonous snakes at the Temple. See that’s what we call today a God thing. More evidence for Nicodemus that indeed Jesus was a teacher sent by God.
Have we been teaching the Old Testament story wrong? We have always taught in Sunday school, Bible studies, and even in sermons that when Moses placed the pole in the center of the camp, that people when bitten by a poisonous snake would ran as fast as they could to the center of the camp and look upon the snake on top of the pole and would not die. But that was before Covid. We know now that no, people didn’t run to the pole, oh know what about their freedom? Was this a mandate from that liberal Moses? They were told by our conservative leader that these poisonous snakes were a hoax the liberals made up it order to make our conservative leader look bad. There really weren’t people dying from snake bites they were dying from something normal, and the liberals were lying about poisonous snakes. Would God make us do something that we don’t want to do? Certainly Not! God believes in our personal freedom! It doesn’t matter that people who got bitten and go look at the pole live, while others got bitten, refuse to lose their freedom and look at pole then they all died! No, we will not lose our freedom and stand for a mandate to look at a pole We’ll will die first! And they did.
My next chapter deals with Jesus being tempted by Satan. Jesus and Satan are on a high place and Satan uses scripture to get Jesus to jump in order to prove his faith in the scriptures. Jesus reply to Satan is that it is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Can the story of the Good Samaritan exist alongside the story of the Dead Samaritan? Jesus said in Matthew 6:24: No man can serve two masters: either he will hate the one, and love the other ; or else he will hold to one and despise the other. There is no possible way these two stories can coexist. They are complete opposites of each other.
A while back I attended Sunday School class with a group of old men like me and one said that God sent Donald Trump and the teacher replied well there’s no doubt about that and all the other six or eight men shook their heads in complete agreement. I thought about asking them if they believed Donald Trump was God’s other only begotten son but I just sat there and took all this conservative talk in, you think if I asking them that what kind of responds would I received? Well of course God sent Trump, his other only begotten, but I supposed God must had sent Trump in order to correct Jesus about that whole Good Smartian story and how he spent his own money for someone’s else health care. Now that’s what conservative’s really despise about the Good Smartian, spending his own money, and what’s even worse he might had spent even more of his own money. I’m sure everyone has noticed that I did not finish Matthew 6:24 I left out the last last line, Jesus said: you cannot serve God and money. When you get down to the nitty gritty with conservatives it’s always about the money: If your hungry I feed you not, it would cost me my money, if you thirst, I give no drink, it would cost me my money, and if you are sick there is no way I’m spending one penny and definitely not spending two days wages, like the Good Samaritan did! This is not the only story that contains the use of money Jesus has a lot to say about money. This is my first draft on this study to determine if Jesus should be considered a Conversative like most Christians of today believe or could it be that Conservatives have allowed their beliefs to become much more political and have clouded their reading and understanding of scripture.
It was only yesterday that I received a great example of my point to write this entire book. Our outstanding governor, that’s what most of the church members who go to my church think, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, as she wants to be know as, you know, like Hillary Rodham Clinton, was here in Fort Smith to dedicate the new National U. S. Marchalls Museum downtown at the Riverfront, The dedication was by invitation only and somehow my invitation must have been lost in the mail or something. So all I saw was on the news reporting on the dedication and her announcement of ordering Arkansas National Guard troops to the Southern border. According to what she said on the news, she was sending the troops to the Southern border to protect America from these poisonous snakes crossing our border killing over 100,000 Americans a year with Fentanyl. Now if you will recall, Donald Trump’s Dead Smartian story only warned us that these snakes were crossing our Southern border to murder and rape our women, but now, years later, the Republican’s also blame these snakes on America’s drug problem. America’s drug dependency is totally blamed on these snakes invading our white Christian, non-Catholic, country. Yes Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a true believer of the story of the Dead Smartian, if you will recall as Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sarah defended the separation of children from their parents at our Southern border saying it was “Biblical”. What scripture was she referring to? Was it the Story of the Good Smartian or was it the new “conservative believe” of the Dead Smartian? Just today a saw on MSN news that Sarah was on Fox News claiming all she did was because of her faith. I won’t question her faith, however I do wonder what her faith is supposed to be. I know she is the daughter of Mike Huckabee the former Governor of Arkansas and current conservative commentator, but here’s the problem I’m having. When Sarah became the Governor of Arkansas she was voted for, I know for a fact, that she was expected to follow in her father’s footsteps. However, Sarah put a stop to that belief from the very beginning of her governorship. One of Sarah’s inaugural events was a Bourbon and Cigar Gala, now when her father was governor he maintained a strict policy not to permit alcohol in the Governor’s Mansion. Mike Huckabee was former Southern Baptist pastor and as you might be aware of, Southern Baptist do not believe in drinking alcohol period. When I was growing up in Haven Heights Baptist Church, and we never missed a Sunday morning, Sunday night or Wednesday night service, our congregation and pastor were serious about following Southern Baptists believes, so when a member of our congregation brought a restaurant and was planning on serving beer we had a fit. Southern Baptist have what is know as a Church Covenant, all Southern Baptist should have a copy of the Church Covenant placed somewhere on a church wall, my current Southern Baptist Church that I attend has it’s copy of the Church Covenant in the hallway just outside my Sunday School classroom and I read it often. The Church Covenant states: to abstain from the sale of, and use of, intoxicating drinks The family insisted upon selling beer and the church voted to remove them from the church role as members. Our church refused to start down the slippery slope. So Sarah can say she’s a Christian and does everything according to faith, but I still believe that a Southern Baptist cannot drink Bourbon and smoke cigars and continue to call themselves Southern Baptist. How many Southern Baptist preachers said anything about Sarah’s Bourbon and cigar party? My guess would be the same number that said anything about Donald Trump’s story of The Dead Smartian.
This is the table of contents for the rest of my book with a brief, well kind of a brief description:
Chapter 3
Jesus is tempted by Satan
Matthew 4:7 Jesus says to him again, It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
To tempt God wouldn’t be something a conservative Christian would ever think of doing but that was before Covid. During Covid the government said Thou shalt wear a mask and as I will discuss in this chapter and following chapters no one, including God dares to tell conservatives what they shalt or not shalt not do. I will tell my own story of how my Southern Baptist Church made the decision to tempt God. The Arkansas Governor, Asa Hutchinson, on a Thursday decided since only 15 people died that day the state would lift the mask mandate. Now let me make this perfectly clear Asa Hutchinson claims to be a good Christian man, back in the day when my older brother, Mike Mann, was a deacon at First Baptist of Fort Smith, Asa was also on the deacon body, in fact as a U.S. attorney Asa was regarded as the legal expert of the deacons. Nonetheless Asa choose The Republican party over the word of God. The churches of Arkansas now had to make a decision weather or not to require masks. By Sunday morning another 20 people in Arkansas had died of Covid making the “death toll” 35 total number of people who died from Covid since great announcement ending the mask mandate. What did my church do about masks? I would describe it this way, there are a lot more people who go to my church that watch Fox News than reading their Bibles. I think what God saw from my church that Sunday was a congregation ripping off their masks shaking their fists at God saying I dare you to give me Covid! Then God sent the Delta variant.
Chapter 4
The Woman Caught in Adultery
Jesus was at the Temple outside in the outer court teaching to a group of people when suddenly, the Pharisees drags a woman before Jesus claiming they just happened to recently caught this evil woman in the very act of committing adultery. They asked Jesus what should they do with this evil woman, should they follow the law, written in Leviticus 20:10? This scripture plainly states that both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death, however they place only the woman not the man in front of Jesus so they caught her in the very act by herself? After much research, I have discovered why the conservative Pharisees only blamed the woman. It turn’s out the woman’s name was Stormy! A few Bible scholars might say I’m just making that up, but it does explain the absents of the man. The Pharisee say that the law reads that she, the adulteress Stormy, should be put to death, but said the Pharisee to Jesus, What sayest thou? Are you going to go against the Law? Jesus did not answer them right away, like they were expecting, instead, Jesus stooped down to the ground and wrote something on the ground and did not answer. After a little bit of time passed, Jesus stood and said Ye who is without sin cast the first stone. Did Jesus tell the Pharisees to cast the first just because they were asking about adultery or does that reply to anything else? Like what you may ask? Because you see the most famous verse in the 20th chapter of Leviticus is not the 10th verse it’s the 13th verse. You may claim that you have never heard of the 13th verse of the 20th chapter of Leviticus, but have you ever heard someone say, with great pride: They used to kill homosexuals in the Old Testament! Well that’s coming from Leviticus 20:13, that’s just two verses away from the law that these Pharisees were tempting Jesus with. The 11th and 12th verses also delt with adultery, but verse 13 that’s conservative’s favorite! What would Jesus if instead of a woman caught in adultery, they brought two gay men in front of and asked the same question, the law says such should be stoned, but what sayest thou? Would Jesus say Ye who are without sin, cast the first stone? Just like he did with the woman or would he done something different since these men were gay? Maybe Jesus would had taken the stone already in his hand and said “I’ll show everyone what to do to a couple of gay boys” then Jesus threw his stone at the 1st gay man hitting in the forehead, bounced off of the 1st hitting the 2nd gay man also in the forehead, then Jesus says “that’s what thou callest killing two gays with one stone”. I will go in length on how it appears that conservatives somehow believe that they must be without sin and it’s their duty to throw rocks at the gay community. I can assure you I have a lot more to say about that in this chapter.
Chapter 5
Stand Your Ground
A couple of years ago the Arkansas General Assembly passed a law, just like the other red states making Arkansas a Stand Your Ground state. The bill was signed into law by former Governor and former deacon of First Baptist Church of Fort Smith, now a presidential candidate, Asa Hutchinson. There are two central issues with all Stand Your Ground laws. First, if a person believes they are in danger in their own mind looking through their own eyes then they have the right to use deadly force against whoever they feel, looking through their own eyes, as long as they believe they are doing right in their own eyes. Second, all Stand Your Ground Laws remove what is called the duty to retreat. That’s the position of the main contributor to ALL Stand Your Laws, the NRA. Republicans always do whatever the NRA tells them to do, including Arkansas former governor and deacon, Asa Hutchinson. Conservative pastor ALWAYS support Republicans. Conservatives believe that God is a Republican and they support Republicans over scripture always no matter what they do. In this important chapter I will go over how many times in the Old Testament scripture says like in 2 Chronicles 1 and 2: 1. Josiah was eight years old when he reigned in Jerusalem, one and thirty years. 2. And he did that which was right, IN THE SIGHT OF GOD and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined to the right hand or to the left. The Bible is perfectly clear that looking through your own eyes to do what you think is right is not the same as doing right in the sight of God. Second: All Stand Your Laws are based entirely on the concept that the person is looking threw his own eyes now no longer has what is know as a “Duty to Retreat”. No duty to retreat? What did Jesus say about your “Duty to Retreat” Jesus said, and I believe each single lawmaker in every single state that has passed such laws have at sometime in each of their life’s have heard what Jesus said about a duty to retreat. Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5 38-40 Ye have heard it said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, 39. But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil, but, whosoever shall smite thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. 41 And if a man compels thee to go with him a mile, go with him two. The way conservatives read this scripture must be whosoever shall smite thy right cheek, stand thy ground, knock his teeth out and while he’s down on the ground poke an eye out
Chapter 6
Render Unto Caeser
Is is right for a Christian to cheat on his taxes? Can a Christian use Jesus as an excuse to steal from the government? Should a Christian justify not paying taxes by saying the government is unjust, like allowing abortions, supporting the gay agenda (whatever that is) giving to the poor, allowing poor brown Catholics into God’s white country or whatever else conservatives declare to be wrong? After all God would not us to support anything we thought was unrighteous? That makes perfect sense, but is that what Jesus said? In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, all three of these Gospels tell the story of the Pharisees asking Jesus if it is lawful to pay taxed to Caesar? Jesus asks for a coin and asks them whose inscription is on the coin and they replied, it is Caesar. Then Jesus said, Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things which are God’s. Jesus said you can’t use your religion, which includes Christianity, or particularly not your greed, as an excuse not to pay taxes. It appears conservatives do not believe nor follow the words of Jesus, and yes render unto to Caesar, is not a suggestion of Jesus, it’s another example and one of Jesus commands, so when someone cheats on their taxes they are not only breaking the laws of the Ten Commandments by bearing false witness, lying, and by stealing, they’re also breaking a commandment of Jesus. I will write, in detail. Donald Trumps repeated lies about his promises to the American people about releasing his taxes and also lying about paying millions and millions of dollars in taxes after it was revealed he paid less than $500 the year that we now know of.
Chapter 7
The Rich Young Ruler
This is story that conservatives hate the most. When is the last time that you can remember your pastor preaching on the rich young ruler? Or maybe the better question is Has your pastor ever preached on the rich young ruler? The best way conservatives can explain this scripture is to skip it altogether. Jesus told the rich young ruler to sell everything he owned and give it to the poor then take up his cross and follow Jesus. But conservatives always say Jesus wants you to be rich and Jesus hates the lazy poor people as much as they do. Putting a conservative spin on this scripture is difficult, but it doesn’t stop them from turning Jesus words around.
Chapter 8
The Rich man and Lazarus
What could be worse than a story of Jesus telling a rich young ruler to sell everything he had and give it to the poor? Well it’s a rich man who in Hell lifted his eyes up seeing that sorry beggar Lazarus up in Heaven! Now let me get this right, conservatives believe God sent a rich man who fared sumptuously every day, as a savior of the United States of America!
Chapter 9
The Widow’s Mite
People at my church time after time would make posts on Face Book claiming the liberal media was not praising Trump each time he would donate his salary. apparently Fox News must make a big deal about Trump’s unbelieveable generosity but the liberal media ignores it. Trump should be praised, and it’s impossible to praise him enough. But is praising the rich for how much they give something that Jesus instructs us to do? Did Jesus praise the rich for their very public giving? In both Mark and Luke the story of the widow’s mite is told where Jesus says she gave more than the rich who only gave to be praised by men. Which is the reason why Trump gave his salary to be praised by men and his church base and his base couldn’t praise him enough, it seems to me they have never heard the story of the widow’s mite or maybe they just don’t care.
Chapter 10
Where Does Jesus Tell us to Pray?
The big thing in the past and is once again becoming more popular with conservatives is the notion that what America needs and would make everyone live happily after, is the idea that they would put prayer back in schools. Is that a good idea? Is that idea coming from Jesus? What did Jesus say about public prayer? Matthew 6:5. When you pray be not like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men, truly I tell you they have their reward. What’s the difference between forcing schoolteachers to lead a prayer and the hypocrites that stand on a street corner and shout out a prayer? According to Jesus the conservatives have receive their reward, they will receive nothing from Heaven.
Chapter 11
An Eye For An EYE
What’s the most ignored scripter by conservatives? No it’s not the rich young ruler nor the rich man and Lazarus it’s found in The Sermon on the Mount. Jesus said Ye have heard it said, notice when Jesus was tempted by Satan he told him For it is written, a big difference form Ye have heard it said, Just like today An eye for an eye is a lot more a saying than God’s law. In the time of the Old Testament there was so many people that became and there might not be anyway to describe this better than to say that the people became so bloodthirsty, they went crazy killing people and poking out people’s eyes so God set up sanctuary cities also known as cities of refuge. I will give one example of this for there are several passages of scripture similar to this; Deuteronomy 4 41.42: Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrising, That the slayer might flee there, who should kill his neighbor unintentionally, and hated him not in times past, and that, fleeing into one of these cities, he might live. In the sermon on the Mount Jesus compared an eye for an eye with evil, I’ll describe why I think Jesus compared an eye for an eye with evil.
Chapter 12
Does Jesus Know You?
Matthew 7: 18-23.
18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Anybody can claim to know Jesus but. the question that really needs to be answered is Does Jesus know you?