Better to be a Goat than a Sheep:
The moment you realise you're a sheep, not a goat like the others π pic.twitter.com/byOROm8XTl
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Christopher Hitchens (–) once said:
‘Shepherds only have three interests in sheep: to fleece, fuck or eat them.’
Captain Cassidy, likewise, has written a number of times that Christians have not really thought out the Shepherd-sheep metaphor. The good shepherd does not look after his sheep for altruistic purposes, but because he is hoping to fare sumptuously upon a mutton casserole.
The Latin for shepherd is ‘pΔstor’. This is why a Bishop carries a shepherd’s crook or crozier. This is why Pastafarian, John Hamill, calls a Bishop’s Episcopal dress:
‘ … his Bo-Peep outfit!’
It is wild to me that people go about calling themselves ‘pastors’, as though that was a sensible profession. What they are saying is that they are sheep-herders of humans, and I question the need for humans to be herded about by self-appointed human-sheep-herders.
The late-lamented John Macarthur (–), of course, had his Shepherd’s Conference.
In Video 1, above, all of the goats are safe from the predations of the shepherd, the sheepdog, and the wolf, as they have cleared the fence. The lone sheep, on the other hand, is not so lucky.
In Matthean Jesus-script, though, the Jesus character prefers the marks of the Christian Church to be sheep rather than goats. Obviously, the following is a priest-authored parable put into the mouth of the Jesus character so as to inculcate docility and gullibility into his flock. The spirited goat, who can excape the predations of his shepherd, is to be punished with ‘everlasting fire’
, in the following Jesus-script. The below is obviously a cult-fanatical harangue meant to prime and condition the targets of Christian conversion into their becoming the docile dupes of the Christian clergy. It goes without saying that being more goatish than sheepish in one’s temperement is not a crime meriting ‘eternal fire’
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When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Matthew 25:31–46, KJV.
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