It sounds to me as if Illuminatiprimus assumes Christians are hypocritical, and some, like Friar Ted, are hiding it but sometimes make a mistake and “out themselves.” So he catches them and leaps in, saying “Aha! I gotcha!”
What his attitude make me think of is bigoted people who use a couple of bad apples from a group and then slap their bad label on the group as a whole. For example, there are some white folks I know who point out that many of those doing hard time in our prisons are black, or non-white. So they say that people of color are more likely to be criminals. But when a white person commits a horrific crime(like a minister conspiring with his secretary to murder his wife and her husband) they’ll take the view “that’s not representative of the group(Christians, whites, or those who are married) as a whole.”
Bigots with an ax to grind, like Illuminatiprimus, don’t seem to understand that nobody can be perfect, and that Christianity is not somehow exposed as being “wrong”, or to blame, when those who profess it fail to live up to it. I’m sorry for anyone who feels as he does, they sound as if they are carrying around a burden of hate or sorrow that weighs them down with pain.
Yea, but one of my favorite Biblical stories is from the 11th chapter of Mark. With all the images “gentle Jesus” it’s eye opening to see him going all big and bad!
On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. 13Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.
15Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves; 16and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. 17He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written,
‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?
But you have made it a den of robbers.”
No drowning, but definitely some bashing!