Jesus seemed like he was a pretty cool guy, by all accounts (except for his major beef with tax collectors – damn hippies, sponging off the working man). Which, I guess, is what accounts for the sustained bleating about his being nailed to a piece of wood, two thousand and nine years later.
What I really wonder about, though, is if God, in all his godliness, saw it coming, and whether he figured there was something to be gained in his only begotten son being on the receiving end of the biblical ass-whupping humanity dished out.
Disturbingly, it’s possible this was God’s way of jerking the choke chain on this over-ambitious heir to the Kingdom of Heaven. Perhaps Jesus learned his lesson, and has permanently mothballed those Second Coming plans, after seeing some of the -ahem- procedures we’ve honed to perfection in places like Abu Ghraib.
