Hi, I’m Apple…
…and I’m Ginger.
And what about that driver in Arkansas?
He drove over a newly-erected monument of the directives that Charlton Heston brought on tablets, the Ten Commandments, no less!
So, he managed to break all 10 commandments in one go.
And that takes some doing.
Yes, it’s not easy to commit adultery while ogling your neighbour’s ass.
And sometimes it’s not easy to obey your mother and father without committing murder.
Strange, that.
And it’s very hard obeying the Sabbath if there’s a sale on at Macy’s!
Of course, the first and most important commandment is to “obey the Lord your God with all your heart,” it’s, therefore, strange that so many religions insert other things, not in the 10 commandments at all.
For instance, there seems to be an unwritten 11th “thou shalt not be very nice to gay people.”
Surely, if religions were right about being gay, it would be mentioned in the 10 Commandments in the Old Testament and the Sermon on the Mount in the New Testament.
It would, if it was that important.
But, of course, it’s not.
Theologians point to Sodom and Gomorrah as proof that being gay is wrong in itself, but have they missed the point?
The point of Sodom and Gomorrah was that the behaviour was predatory and lustful.
By pinning this solely on gay people, it appears theologians are saying that being a sexual predator and lustful and promiscuous and generally sleeping around is alright if you’re heterosexual.
But, surely, that is not the lesson God meant us to take away from the Sodom and Gomorrah saga.
Nor that it was wrong to be gay.
Nor that it is alright to hate gay people.
Surely the point that was being made with Sodom and Gomorrah was that it is sinful to be a sexual predator, whoever you are!
That is why adultery is in the 10 commandments.
That is why ogling your neighbour’s wife’s ass is in the 10 commandments.
That is why it says if you commit adultery with your heart, you do so with your body also.
And that is why there is nothing about being gay being a sin in the 10 commandments or in the Sermon on the Mount.
The point is that you love another person as yourself.
And your love towards that person is exclusive.
And that is true of any gender.!
Exclusive love is the key to life, the universe and everything.
And if anyone thinks differently, we say sod ’em.
And gomorrah ’em as well.
And with that, it’s time for us to go now, but we’ll see you again next week. Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.
Say goodnight to all the nice people around the world and to all the developing life -forms out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together!
O.K, goodnight folks. See you next Tuesday.
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