{"id":2408,"date":"2009-11-15T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2009\/11\/15\/not-on-my-christmas-reading-list\/"},"modified":"2009-11-15T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T16:25:09","slug":"not-on-my-christmas-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2009\/11\/not-on-my-christmas-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Not on my Christmas reading list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironiccatholic.com\/2009\/11\/last-year-it-was-gospel-according-to.html\">The Ironic Catholic points to<\/a> a new novel called Lamb, which is subtitled &#8220;The Gospel According to Biff, Christ&#8217;s Childhood Pal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Okay the subtitle is bad enough and it is hard to imagine a Jew named Biff in the first place.  I just wondered how awful the book could be so I read the first page of it at Amazon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">It starts with Biff describing a 6 year old Jesus letting a lizard play in his mouth.  I&#8217;m not kidding.  Biff yells &#8220;Unclean, unclean&#8221;, but the mothers around him ignore him.  Jesus&#8217; &#8220;younger brother&#8221; manages to take the lizard and then smashes it with a rock.  Jesus  takes the dead lizard and places it into his mouth.  The lizard is then resurrected and crawls back out of his mouth.  His &#8220;younger brother&#8221; than kills it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Now we know the later story in Jesus life is based on Lizardus.  Though it would be hard for child Jesus to say &#8220;Lizardous come forth&#8221; with the lizard in his mouth.  As an adult I guess he had perfected his technique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">It seems this book has the flavor of the Gnostic books that also described a child Jesus making clay birds and bringing them to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ironic Catholic points to a new novel called Lamb, which is subtitled &#8220;The Gospel According to Biff, Christ&#8217;s Childhood Pal.&#8221; Okay the subtitle is bad enough and it is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}