Humour VIII

Filing this under "dark humor".Full headline:Bloods and Crips Stand Together in Solidarity During Atlanta Black Lives Matter Protests Source

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Incredible images from Friday night's Black Lives Matter protest in Atlanta show members of the Crips and the Bloods rival gangs with a history of over 50 years of violence and bloodshed tying their flags together in a display of unity.

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My "bolding".Yep, we got high moral ground happening there. Moose

This made me think of this

Holy Michael Jackson's time-travelling ghost, Batman!

Said nobody ever.Stop watching Fox. Stop reading Breitbart.They are lying to you.

WWJD?I found that people disagreed
with little details of my creed.
It made me very mad indeed;
I took the very dimmest view.
I wondered: What Would Jesus Do?To imitate the Son of Man
I came up with a subtle plan
that fit the situation well:
consulting my (extensive) notes
on who are sheep, and who are goats,
I damned the latter all to Hell;
'cos that, if all I've read is true
is just what Jesus plans to do.Though others laughed and thought it odd
I publicly and loudly claimed
to speak on the behalf of God
and who can say I should be blamed?
--- for as you see, I took my cue
from things that Jesus used to do.I told them what the Lord approved
and who it was he faulted;
which people he would like removed
and which (like me) exalted,
'cos this, as I am sure you knew,
is just what Jesus used to do.I beat them with a whip (or thong)
to show them they were in the wrong;
perhaps you think my actions mean,
but as it says in verse 15
of St. John's Gospel, chapter 2,
that's just what Jesus used to do.---As you'll have guessed (I think it's plain)
I write in a sarcastic strain.
My moral, as I should explain
to readers who are dim,
is this: feel free to wonder What
Would Jesus Do, but if you're not
the Godhead incarnate as man,
just try to do the best you can,
but don't behave like him.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

your last verse kinda fizzled out...but overall a funny witticism.

Try doing what Jesus did at your bank.

Remember that Jesus is throwing over the desks of believers and whipping believers, not atheists or Buddhists or Taoists or animists or those worshiping Zeus or Coyote.

Message subtitle is from graphic hover-text at source page. SourceMoose

Well, any suggestions? Most of the poem is just basically a list of stuff that Jesus did that wouldn't go well if I did it. A list, not an argument building to a conclusion, or a joke working up to a punchline, or a narrative with a beginning, a middle and an end. I can't just stop when I run out of things to put on the list, it has to have a coda saying, well, something, or the poem would look, and indeed be, unfinished. (Quite a lot of my poems are in effect lists, this is a problem I have faced before.)