Rank the Gospels!

The last two I find a bit boring, cause they're full of predictable bullshit (whereas John is full of highly unexpected bullshit). I like how the end of Mark has disappeared.

You know, I've just been reading up on the gospels, and I haven't heard this idea that the end of Mark has disappeared. Just that alternative endings were tacked on. The best thing about Mark is its curveball ending!

John 1 is fantastic but after that it's all downhill, endless dithering, too much discourse and repetition and pat phrases.

All the disturbing Archie Xtain comics ended with the imperative: READ you that GOSPEL of JOHN kiddies! That is like the worst gospel ever.

Luke is called "the hurried gospel," but it's more like "the boring gospel." Oh brother. Mark I can't remember worth shit, so it must be pretty unremarkable.

Paul is definitely the worst & stupidest part of the whole Bible. Jesus Christ that guy was a bastard. Revealations kind of makes up for slogging through all those epistles, though, as it's hella trippy. I don't think I've ever read anything epistolary that's even remotely good, except Pamela which at least was weird.

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JOSEPH SMITH TRANSLATION
MATTHEW 27: 3-6
Judas’s death is described. (compare Matthew 27: 3-5; Acts 1: 18)
3 Then Judas, who had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
5 And they said, What is that to us? See thou to it; thy sins be upon thee.
6 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself on a tree. And straightway he fell down, and his bowels gushed out, and he died.

Mark's the one where Jesus is all cryptic and "don't tell anyone about me" and "ugh you disciples will never understand" and then he dies and the women go to the tomb and the angel is all "tell the disciples Jesus will meet them in Galilee" but instead the women freak out and run off afraid. THE END. It's weird in a totally different way than John is, and more subtle.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), December 6th, 2006.

David Plotz is a pretty good journalist, I think.

Dang, when they came to my house 10 years ago they just gave us a regular King James and a Book of Mormon.

I'd totally read someone like Slacktivist working his way through the Bible though.

Your search - "jesus rides a platypus" - did not match any documents.

shame, that.