ULTRA-HARRIER JOE’S HOMILY · TO THE
BOULEVARDIERS
No disrespect of Christ required
Chapter 16
I hasten to say that it requires no disrespect of Christ to take this view of things,
2fBecause it is only natural for a son to defer to his father,
3gEspecially if your father has already proven that he considers you expendable,
4hAnd there is no need for any Harrier anywhere to think ill of Christ,
5At all,
6iBecause we can’t be completely sure that they wrote down everything he said,
7jOr if you prefer to believe that you do know what he said,
8You still can’t be sure that he always said the lines the way the Priests read them in church.
9And never threw in any ironic facial expressions,
10Or any equivocal body language,
11Or any figurative language,
12That might have thrown a different light on things.
13When he said, for example, Give us this day our daily bread,
14kWho are we to say that Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior of the Universe, was totally unaware of the slang connotation of the word “bread”?
15When he said, In my father’s house are many mansions,
16lWho are we to say he wasn’t hinting that what’s okay for dad might be okay for us too,
17Except that maybe the scribe who was writing it all down was too busy scribbling to catch the wink that went with the remark?
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