Re: Churchill NZ under lockdown!
all religions and their tracts can be twisted over and over and over again - and getting down to the minutiea of their texts means being able to speak and understand and interpret aramaic ; greek ; hebrew ; arabic etc etc
the interpretations of the beginnings of Islam and Judaism are contested through the stories of Abraham and his son and the challenge of God for Abraham to sacrifice his son as an offering - some say Isaac and other Ishmael - do your follow implicitly the teachings of the OT or the NT ; or the OT and the NT or the Koran? and then comes in the great Indian texts and Buddhas scripts - they are all there for our use and interpretations and then the discussions and often arguments begin.
How was Jesus the son of a carpenter able to sit down with the eminent scribes and pharisees of the day and challenge them over their own scriptures and now we have someone masquerading as an "artful dodger" - not a particularly believable gabble ; trying to sell us some snake medicine - get on ya wagon matey the next town is just around the corner!
ps: forgot to mention the little red book - now where did I put my copy ; adored by millions?? miao miao?