Jerusalem

this nucleus of sweet christian craziness sought after from 1096 onwards with 60,000 strong leading the kill-everyone-in-its-path-if-they-don’t-worship-the-same-character-of-fiction-that-we-do campaign stands tall within the canon of idiotic reasons that humans have killed each other. one has to wonder that if the devious concoctors of the work of fiction known as the new testament had penned “mr. christ’s” death somewhere a little less sweltering than the dry heat of jerusalem--- if the whole story would have been different. think about it what if the character of christ had been written about in the context of siberia or perhaps the nether-regions of antartica? certainly the freezing cold may have calmed down the fanaticism to follow? those who will tell us that these lands had not even been “discovered” yet so they wouldn’t have suited the writer’s of said work of fiction--- well, i suppose that they walk around everyday, somehow, on one leg--- because the other leg, bent upward, always has the extended foot shoved in the mouth of said believer. an estimated 30,000 people were killed in the first crusade alone--- muslims jews & even other christians, died because people who read a book told the majority of people who couldn’t even read that book, that there was sufficient reason to take up arms & go marauding over water & land to kill others because they did not abide by the fiction which this book “delivered.” it is now 2011 & have the crusades stopped? just how “holy” is this jerusalem? just because it is the centerpiece of 3 cults of fiction, does not make it anymore significant a land mass than that of st. petersburg, where a much much much better writer wrote the brothers karamazov. but have no fear, these itty-bitty revelations will not keep us brilliant apes from continuing to club each other over the heads until our brains splash out in the blessed desert. keep beating, keep thumping those clubs now, until you get your precious little armageddon.