"Resume Embellishment." It's Practiced by Both Republicans and Christians


Recently, a Republican Party fellow, George Santos, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. During his campaign he said he had graduated from an Ivy League school and worked for two different firms on Wall Street. The NY Times inquired about him and none of the three places had any record he had ever been at any of them.  This week he apologized for "resume embellishment."

The Christian faith is accused regularly of embellishing the resume of Jesus. A Christian apologist recently scolded any Christian who might agree claims for Jesus were embellished in the Bible. To call yourself a Christian, he said, you must believe in the virgin birth and resurrection. He went on with the old trope as to why these have been "proven" to have happened.  Mostly the "proof" is someone who wrote part of the Bible said they happened. 

Embellishment started with the Jews most of whom thought their history was the most important of all humankind. Along came the Christians who took the parts of Judaism they liked and dumped the rest. They thougt, and think today, they are more important than the Jews. The importance of both groups in the big picture of the human experience has been embellished. They are a minority in the human population. 

In order to sell Christianity, the stories of both God and Jesus had to be embellished. God became an all powerful killer of humans he did not like. Jesus went around doing "miracles." To complete the total embellishment had to be among the several mythical holy men to come back to life after being dead. Having power over dead was the ultimate form of embellishment.   

Republicans have had a leader for the last few years who is the ultimate blow-hard embellisher, Donald Trump. Years ago he sued a reporter who said his net worth was not close to the ten billion he claimed. We are now learning the reporter was correct. 

That a new House member embellished his resume is consistent with both his Party and Christianity.

Comments

  1. tsmDecember 29, 2022 at 9:59 AM

    there you go again. twist it around to discredit Christianity. OK, no surprise there. but do you remember your idol , olde Joe Biden. gave a talk that was originally given by someone else (what's that called) . lied about his law school standing. said that he was smarter then everyone else. arguably a functional atheist. carried a rosary in his pocked (during the 2020 campaign). he is democrat.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. JonDecember 29, 2022 at 11:44 AM

      tsm "twist it around to discredit Christianity."
      Discrediting Christianity does not require any twisting. Are you telling me there is proof there was a "virgin birth?" Or, walking on water or a dead person coming back to life? If I have discredited such garbage good for me.

      As for Biden and his law school standing he made a remark to a crank at a campaign stop that was recorded by a news company. It was incorrect--it was not printed on his campaign material like your hero's. Later he said at a news conference he was 76th out of 85 in his class.

      As to his credentials as a Catholic, I know no one measures up like you.

      Delete
    2. tsmDecember 29, 2022 at 1:37 PM

      as i said, there you go again. you believe what you believe (or don't believe). we know all about that. but you keep repeating it. any comment is twisted into an opportunity to say it once again. that old chap gets a tad tiresome. and irrelevant. as to olde Joe, disingenuous as he obviously is, he is not unique among politicians. many of them lie about many things, live via "spin". whatever. that is why, I, along with many others, are sick and tired of so-called politics as usual.

      Delete
  2. Ardy BDecember 30, 2022 at 5:52 AM

    Belief begets religion, the egg came first, and the glass is half full. You can roll a donut hole but you can’t tune a fish. Health to you and yours Jon is my New Years wish. Thanks for keeping on keeping on.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. JonDecember 30, 2022 at 6:50 AM

      Ardy B Thank you Ardy and thanks for being a reader. Happy New Year to you.

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Maybe the "Original Sin" Should be Reassigned

Image
We can all agree most Catholic priests are fine people and not guilty of sexual abuse. What Catholics must face, however, it that their church harbors executives who are dishonest . There is an incredible story about the Argentine Bishop Zanchetta. The Pope worked with him in Argentina and they are considered friends. Around 2015 Zanchetta sent nude pictures of himself and they began circulating world wide. He also was too friendly with young seminarians and some left because of him.  Three different officials say they made formal complaints to the Vatican about Zanchetta between 2015 and 2017. Yet, in 2018, the Vatican claimed it was unaware of any complaints about Zanchetta. This might be a good time to repeat the Catholic hierarchy claims to have the sole authority handed down from Jesus to what the faith stands for. It condemns as sinners those who practice birth control, have abortions and gay sexual relationships. Handing the hierarchy this responsibility would make som
Read more

The Religious Capitol Invaders May Yet Win

Image
So much about U.S. society and religion can be learned from the Civil War and what happened afterwards. After its defeat, the South started a myth about the unethical soldiers from the North. The South fought for principles of God and states rights. The North did not. It was the South, this propaganda told the country, that had the high moral ground.  The Capitol invaders, encouraged by Trump, swallowed the myth that Biden's election was stolen. Thus, they think they held and still hold the high moral ground. This was reinforced by the cross and prayers during the invasion. Even with Trump is gone, we will see political opportunists like Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley stroking crowds and feeding the same lies as Trump. Like "the South will rise again" these gullible followers will talk of victory over the unclean. After the Civil War the South rallied around the phrase, Lost Cause. For decades, and maybe to this day, there are ceremonies remembering fallen martyrs, Re
Read more

Father Frank Pavone, the Ultimate Crook

Image
Recently, the Vatican defrocked Frank Pavone. His diehard fans are outraged. This is because he cleverly manipulated his fans and the press all the while living well from donations and, apparently, abusing some women. By making abortion the "sin" of the century, and himself the main opposition to this one sin, he himself could get away with any sin he pleased.  As the link points out, Pavone was the perfect priest for the Trump era. Trump is so self-important laws have no role in his life. He felt accountable to no one. Women were there to be had. Pavone and Trump are interchangeable.  Pavone was very successful raising money. In his mind, abortion was so important in Catholic beliefs and he was so important in anti-abortion the money he raised opposing it was his to do with what he liked. The Catholic Church, the brand name he used to raise this money, thought the money belonged to it. When he gave the Vatican the bird, it gave him walking papers. With polls showing the majo
Read more