Bread and show

Friday February 15th, Matthew 4: 5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6 "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written: " 'He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'" 7 Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'" Put on a show and entertain the headless masses as they do in the magnificent coliseum. Death and show before them and bread in their hands, it works every time. As long as they are not the ones being killed it is of little matter in an empire, that is the stuff of the community we left long ago. Throw yourself down and be king for a day, you will be the talk of the town, the American idol, and your fifteen minutes of fame will last into the sunset before it becomes a flame and burns itself out only to be replace with the next days list of martyrs in coliseum. Do not put the Lord, who is even your God, to the test. And trust that even this humanity knows good as well as evil.