My Talks

We are holy inside God's hand

This is not to denigrate Jesus who was the real Son of God and not to stop us from celebrating his birth, but the story of Xmas was made up and Santa has been substituted for Jesus. Santa's reindeer match the disciples perfectly, even with St. Paul being Rudolph in this reading and illustration for my blog at Unicorn Letters of the same name. It explores the fact that the Roman holiday of Saturnalia was expropriated by the Christian Church and how Santa Claus now expresses the Golden Rule better that the religions that have loss their way. Santa's teachings are a simplistic, "Ho, Ho, Ho" and kids believe he is real because their parent tell them so, but yet have doubts about Jesus. Also, if Jesus is Santa Claus, then Mary Magdalene is Mrs. Claus. Some of the facts on the disciples are from the Pesher of Christ. Illustrations from T'was the Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore 1912. https://www.pesherofchrist.com/

This explores the subject of pesher in the Dead Sea Scrolls and suggests that we think outside of the box (jar) to redefine Jesus and the early Church. It extols the few who have gone against the scholarly and religious consensus to fulfill the paradigm, which has already begun, of a world that is not longer governed by religious dogma and half-truths. https://www.pesherofchrist.com/