TheUsefulIdiot...Commentary(FTDParish)

Now that I'm able to access the blog again, not sure what was up with that, I wanted to talk a little about this particular story line..............

• I'd like to make clear that this is a work of fiction.
• I'm not trying to change anyone's mind about their respective religiosity.
• I'm not maintaing this as gospel given me by God, archeological discovery, or otherwise.
• I'm not even positing that this is how it went down. It's just an interesting idea that I wanted to explore as a storyline. Although each premise is plausible based on already accepted reigious dogma and archeological findings.
• ie: Jesus did go to the desert and fast for "40 days and 40" nights, rebuffing the advances of Satan 3 times in the process.
• ie:A ship was discovered and excavated by archeologists, that ship did contain scrolls containing controversial content. Some of that content is at odds with the gospels in the New Testament.
• The tax collector Saul was converted after witnessing a bright light in the night sky while following Christians to Damascus. He then did carry on to Damascus and was baptised, changing his name to Paul and ministering the story of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
• Jesus is from the Greek translation Jesu Christos. Christos, the Greek term for Messiah, literally the annoited one. Yehoshua is closer to what the Christ's name would've been at the time of his life, in the original Aramaic. Yeho=Yaweh shua=help/salvation. So from Yehoshua to the Hebrew Yeshua=to save, to the Greek Jesu.
• I'm not recruiting for Satan, God, Allah, L Ron Hubbard or anyone else.
• And I'm not profitting from this. Hell, I'm not even sure anybody besides Finn and Tuck are reading this.

I've explored this idea enough to know that I want to do a significant amount of research....biblical, historical, geographical, etc and then come hard, efforting to shape and form the story. Then I'll get more out as posts on this series.

In the meantime I'll continue with the Untitled series, which I have fleshed out more and have spent a significant amount of time on already. If I jump into the Idiot too soon I'll risk losing Untitled mojo. I probably shoulda resisted Finn's urgings to come out with it already. He asked for some more Untitled and I gave him the Idiot to keep him busy for awhile. He got so excited about the premise, I let him talk me into posting the roughs I had done. Now that it's posted and it'll be so long until I have more ready to post, I'm regretting giving in.

So, if you are interested in the Idiot series, hang tight. We'll get to that as soon as possible. And in the meantime, check out our favorite unnamed protagonist in our favorite untitled series, coming soon to a monitor in front of you.