The "True" Crime Novel

The Bible is a crime novel where the author of the book gets murdered by anyone who reads it. And anyone who doesn't read it, or who denies they were in anyway responsible for the murder of the author, is called a sinner who cannot be trusted by all those who did.

In fact, anyone who reads the book feels instantly compelled to confess to a crime they didn't commit. And this is perhaps the greatest irony of all. For it produces a windfall of contradictions that follow.

The Christian will readily insist that they are responsible for the murder of Christ, for example, but deny they are in anyway responsible for the centuries of slavery and genocide of a nation that they are proud to call Christian. And they are proud to call that nation "Christian," because as Christians, they derive far more benefits from it than any other religion, thanks in large part to the laws they have passed that discriminate in one way or another agaisnt every other "religion," whether economic, political, or theistic.  

And this is true, even though the millions who were enslaved like Christ, and the millions more who were murdered like Christ, where done so for essentially the same reasons that Christ was enslaved and murdered.  

And by Europeans no less, who looked more like the emperors Nero and Commondus, as well as Caligula and Constantine, than those they murdered and enslaved people who both looked and lived more like Christ himself. 

Yet today, the Christian will as readily deny they are the beneficiary of those centuries of genocide and enslavement, even though today they hold untold benefits derived directly from those centuries wherein such misery was sown so far and wide,  as they will deny that those races who were the victims of those horrors have been in anyway disadvantaged as a result. 

Indeed, the Christian rushes off to their lavish churches on Sunday to proclaim their mea culpas  for the murder of a God, enjoying all of the social and economic benefits that were showered upon them after Constantine declared Christianity the official religion of Rome, while denying they are in anyway oppressing those minorities who they have, through both their legislators and their laws, ultimately treated no better than Christ, when Christ was treated at his worst.

And while some would call such denials the epitome of hypocrisy, others would simply call it the greatest miracle of faith of all.