He's here. Look busy.

A couple of weeks ago, M and I caught a little TV - some 'news' show where the point is really just to outrage with taboo breakers and otherwise harmless crackpots (evidently no one offered their kitchen to be used as a pedophile trap this week, so they went with Plan B).

Anyway, it seems the second incarnation/manifestation/enfleshment/tour of Jesus is on earth, and this time he took the form of a 60-year-old Puerto Rican guy who lives in Houston (or Dallas - definitely Texas, though - where else?) and loves to drink, smoke, and party with hot Latinas. I enjoyed that the reporter repeated ad nauseum that he 'drinks, smokes, and parties,' *wink wink, nudge nudge* though last time I checked those things weren't against the law, Christian or otherwise. He preaches that there is no sin, only crime, and that you reap what you sow in this world so be careful, even though once you're with god the slate is wiped clean. Guess what else: by preaching happiness and saying he's Jesus Christ he's making millions. This guy's worth it if for no other reason than the sheer entertainment of watching people waiting with bated breath for the second coming exhale in shock and sputter about his heresy. I would actually tune in again to that show if they turned the camera on those folks.

My question regarding him is similar to my overarching question for George W: does he truly believe everything he says, or is there a voice in his head telling him, 'hey, they need to hear this, and they believe in you, so sure whatever it is I'm saying right now is true in a way.'