english actor: stephen fry

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000410/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm


you might have seen this actor from england, who is actually half-jewish, in some movie or other like a harry potter audio recording etc..... he likes jethro tull and is friends with douglas adams who wrote the marvellous hitch hikers guide to the galaxy books.......

he was on tv here in australia yesterday and the interviewer, although he seemed to be english, was actually an irishman, i was told........ the interviewer asked him about depression, attempts at suicide, cocaine usage, etc.... at one point mr fry went on to talk about his disdain for some of the tenets that christians propose.... for example, he thinks it's ridiculous that we shouldn't judge others or even punish others for transgressions.... the famous incident in the gospels refers to the woman who is going to be stoned for adultery..... let's go there

nowadays, we have safe sex, the pill, etc, in the west, and most adults, at some point, enjoy a good fuck which is only natural as the core instinct behind that is to reproduce....... obviously many gay men and women enjoy a good fuck with the same sex but the life energy is all the same, it is impelling them to have a good fuck

in the times of the roman domination, e.g., during the times of the incident mentioned in the gospels, a good fuck could actually involve a good old-fashioned orgy with many people....maybe some women even ended up pregnant after such orgies, slave women, whatever..... probably the jews mentioned in the gospels, such as the Sadducees and pharisees were not given to such behavior and would have considered it an outrage to the God they fervently believed in and wished to serve and worship........ prior to these periods, the ancient egyptians had of course developed some primitive forms of contraceptions and even primitive condoms.... very long before the gospel events, egyptian royalty even had the habit of forming marriages between brothers and sisters, with the idea of preserving the royal blood as they considered their royalty, the pharoes, to be their god-given representatives and worshiped them in all forms - this kind of union is of course forbidden under Islam

the practice of stoning to death is very old, from an anthropological perspective, and still persists in Iran today where children of mothers found guilty of adultery are encouraged to slay their mothers by throwing stones along with the rest of the village, in the same way we find in the gospel story

probably Jesus was not trying to say their shouldn't be laws and courts and punishments for transgressions..... but he most certainly was probably trying to find a balance and propose that each individual find their own moral code and include in that moral code a tendency towards forgiveness towards transgressions against one's own self, and even to feel empathy for the position of those who are trying to trespass against one's own self and what one consider's one's own interests....

it is, a little extreme, to stone a woman to death for adultery, when you consider some of the nasty bullshit the romans were getting into..... nevertheless, Jesus recommended paying taxes which proves he was not an anarchist......

Jesus was also interested in balancing some of the hypocrisies that abounded in Palestine at the time, so if he miraculously healed a cripple on a Sabbath day, and was chastised for that by the jewish authorities, he was interested to expose their hypocrisy - such as with the Temple money changer episode...... of course one cannot imagine that these hypocrisies of the jews of the time were on a parallel with the roman debaucheries.... it's interesting to note that death penalty by stone throwing was the jewish practice at the time whereas the romans preferred crucifixion.....