Covid has certainly brought out the best and worst in people. On the one hand we have had self sacrifice on an astounding scale from key workers all over the world. Vaccines have been produced in record time by medical science. Acts of kindness and philanthopy in the midst of economic melt down have been inspiring and the avarice of the few, who own such wealth as they can never possibly spend, has been exposed. Political towers have toppled. Foundations crumble.
2020 hasn't been easy for anyone. A virulent pandemic, an American election which polarised populations, and here, the threat of a no-deal Brexit which has to be the domain of the deluded. It doesn't seem as if 2021 will be any easier as livelihoods and trade agreements disappear and the slide into poverty for the many continues while the few exploit misery.
I suppose I would say, as I have always said:
there's just no cure for stupid.
Still -- you gotta have a laugh!
I think you'll find this -- illuminating.
The Gospel According to
“Where’d they find it?”
“That’s the beauty of it. ‘Xactly where you’d expect. Digging foundations in Bethlehem.”
“That’s too spooky.”
“Darned right!”
“And it was just there?”
“Yip! Staring ‘em in the face. Of course it’s only a fragment.”
“Naturally. Like them Dead Sea things.”
“Well, you’d hardly expect to find an entire Gospel. Ripped out of an old exercise book, it was. S’pose paper must’ve been scarce.”
“What’d it say?”
“Well, according to the news, pretty much what you’d think. Ask and it shall be given unto you. Take and ye shall have. Bomb and it will be opened unto you.”
“And ain’t that the authentic language, though.”
“Sure is. Wrote in old fashioned English -- just like the original.”
“Does it say anything else?”
“Says the people of Gad shall prevail, 'gainst economic crisis, enemies and allies - or all lies. The writing’s not that great in places.”
“Well, it’s a comfort to know.”
“Best of all at the bottom it’s signed ‘Jesus AD 29’ and it has one of them thar ichthus marks on.”
“A what?”
“A fish – you know; it’s like a goldfish or something. And right on the last line it says Gad Bless America.”
“Hey Buddy – Amen to that!”
