It’s 8am and no sign of Easter Egg unters along Pattaya’s Beach Road. Most Christian are sleeping off celebratory drunks, hoping to rise from the dead for a recuperative beer in the late afternoon.
The Thais’ awareness of the Christian religious holiday comes from TV broadcasts of Filipinos flailing themselves into a messianic frenzy before subjecting their bodies to a ritual crucifixion. The Catholic Church in the PI has requested that crucifixees pay special attention to hygienic precautions before being nailed to the cross.
I was brought up Catholic, but never ever contemplated re-enacting the sufferings on the cross, however my friend Willem Dafoe got to play the Son of God in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. The Blonde Jesus. No one would have cast me in that role. Not even as a reincarnation.
Unlike the American George Patrick Dubie who purported himself to be the 2nd Coming of Christ. His girlfriend shot him in a Chiang Mai restaurant in 2006. The Thai authorities gave her 3.5 years for the self-proclaimed Messiah and carrying a pistol in public. Her confession of premeditated murder halved her sentence along with her claim to have been driven insane by her beloved partner’s affair with a Thai woman.
“I was so pissed that I killed Jesus.” The disciple swore before a Thai judge. “He was spending the money he owed me on another woman.”
Not Jesus.
Obviously the 21st Century proved too much temptation for the Canadian flimflamer.
Will he come back for a 3rd time?
As for this Easter Sunday I’m heading for Koh Lann for an Easter sunburn. No church. No Mass. I keep my prayers to myself.
PAX
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It’s 8am and no sign of Easter Egg unters along Pattaya’s Beach Road. Most Christian are sleeping off celebratory drunks, hoping to rise from the dead for a recuperative beer in the late afternoon.
The Thais’ awareness of the Christian religious holiday comes from TV broadcasts of Filipinos flailing themselves into a messianic frenzy before subjecting their bodies to a ritual crucifixion. The Catholic Church in the PI has requested that crucifixees pay special attention to hygienic precautions before being nailed to the cross.
I was brought up Catholic, but never ever contemplated re-enacting the sufferings on the cross, however my friend Willem Dafoe got to play the Son of God in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. The Blonde Jesus. No one would have cast me in that role. Not even as a reincarnation.
Unlike the American George Patrick Dubie who purported himself to be the 2nd Coming of Christ. His girlfriend shot him in a Chiang Mai restaurant in 2006. The Thai authorities gave her 3.5 years for the self-proclaimed Messiah and carrying a pistol in public. Her confession of premeditated murder halved her sentence along with her claim to have been driven insane by her beloved partner’s affair with a Thai woman.
“I was so pissed that I killed Jesus.” The disciple swore before a Thai judge. “He was spending the money he owed me on another woman.”
Not Jesus.
Obviously the 21st Century proved too much temptation for the Canadian flimflamer.
Will he come back for a 3rd time?
As for this Easter Sunday I’m heading for Koh Lann for an Easter sunburn. No church. No Mass. I keep my prayers to myself.
PAX
For a related article click on this URL
http://www.mangozeen.com/moses-on-acid.htm
posted on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm and filed under religion -
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