Nicholas Leger
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If you part the red sea and save your people from genocide, you retire. You live out the rest of your days knowing you did good work. You let the people you saved bring you manna and you make off color jokes about Egyptian tyrants. When your people grow complacent with the good times and decide to melt their jewelry into animal sculptures they can worship, you celebrate their creativity and then nicely recommend they all see therapists. What you don’t do is you do not climb Mt. Sinai to get a set of 10 divine rules that are literally set in stone. If you do that, you’re condemning all future people who use a Judaeo-Christian operating system to worry that their moments of pleasure are moments of over-indulgence, that their dark thoughts are as bad as dark acts. Thou shalt not, thou shalt not, thou shalt not. Thou did not. I did not. I did not commit adultery. I couldn’t even if I wanted to because I’m not married. I also did not covet my neighbor’s wife. But I did, Jesus H Christ did I ever, covet some random woman’s husband.
By Nicholas Leger3 years ago in Confessions