A pamphlet dropped through my door yesterday. Nice one. Thick. Good quality. Full colour, gloss pages. It was entitled ‘Light for the Last Days’ and, quite frankly, it has changed my life.

I read the prayer on the back page (posted above) and immediately felt lighter, stronger and completely liberated. Because reading this relieves you of any moral obligation whatsoever. It eliminates completely the possibility of ever committing a ‘sin’. Because Jesus has become my ‘proxy’ where all sins are concerned.

If I get a parking ticket, I’ll return it with a message to ‘send it to Jesus’ because he died to pay for my sins. And I hadn’t even committed any back then. Though I’ve been striving to make up for lost ground since 1956. If I miss the toilet in the middle of the night, I’ll just tell Mel “weren’t me!!! Jesus did it”.

This ‘movement’?, ‘organisation’?, philosophy?? is the work of a guy called Tony Pearce. Never heard of him either. Possibly Stuart’s brother, possibly not. But he’s a busy boy.

He loves Israel, the Holy Land, the Chosen People and all the good things. The Messiah bit is problematic. He disagrees with the Jewish version of how and when ‘the Messiah’ will arrive. He sees Jesus coming back, and pretty soon, to save us all again. Even though He’s saving me every day. If I sin…

The Jewish version of the Messiah is different. He’s got a longer beard, and flies business class. On his air miles. And when he arrives it will signal peace and prosperity all around the world. So I reckon we have a little wait for him looking at the total shit-storm around the globe currently.

But Tony (as I call him, now we’re ‘brothers-in-Jesus’) has seen the signs of the apocalypse, and they’re kind’a right here, right now. And that’s the time for the Jesus-Messiah to make yet another comeback (that’ll be one more than John Travolta) and save us. Tony bases it all on the Bible and the prophecies contained therein. Some of us have problems with a literal interpretation of the Bible as ‘written by God’ because there’s no WH Smiths in heaven. But if cynicism is a sin, then I’m good with that, Jesus’ll sort it for me.

I do admire Tony’s commitment. I may… question? some of his conclusions and even apply a very materialistic type reductionism to an approach which is completely spiritual and belief-based. But he’s written books and leaflets and essays and lectures, all very generously available free. And he hands out pamphlets to Godless sinners in the hope of their salvation.

Shabbat shalom, Tony,

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The Damned xxxx