Abe Said, Where Do You Want The Killing Done?
God Said, Out On Highway 61
Blasting With Boyles
One of the more troubling stories in the Bible is in Genesis Chapter 22 where God tells Abraham, “take your only son, whom you love, and offer him there as a burnt offering.” Islamic scholars point that Abraham had, in fact, two sons. One with Hagar the maid, who his wife Sarah had Abraham impregnate when she thought she was barren. With God’s intervention Sarah, at age 78, gave birth to Issac 17 years later. Biblically Ishmael is the progenitor of all Arabs and Isaac is the forefather of all Jews. Muslims and Jews/Christians have debated over the many centuries who God asked to be sacrificed, Ishmael or Issac.
We are not sure whether God directly talks to President Joe Biden as he did Abraham, but recently President Biden announced that he was pardoning his second son Hunter from being sacrificed on the altar of American Justice.
The real question for those of us who are fathers is whether you would pardon your son from being a burnt offering on some altar? I know I would. The real problem for me and many others is that President Biden told all the gathered tribes that he would never pardon Hunter (Isaac/Ishmael). Not only that, but once he had gotten the hang of this whole pardon thing down, he threatened to pardon virtually everyone in his Administration, and who knows perhaps even every descendant of the original seven tribes.
But if Joe Biden’s actions seem to parallel those of Abraham, are there other present American political figures with parallels to biblical figures? Is Donald Trump akin to David, and is he creating a great MAGA kingdom that will never be exceeded in the history of this country?
What about Elon Musk being a Joshua-like figure, causing the trumpets to ring out that cause the almost impenetrable walls of the Administrative State of Jerico to fall down, allowing the MAGAites to burst through killing every man, woman, and child bureaucrat with God’s blessing?
You can come up with your parallel figures between today and biblical times but, my advice to all of you is, watch out for toads falling from the sky, water that turns into blood, and the death of all first born.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
— Peter Boyles
