BAR JOSEPH: BIOLOGICAL TERRORIST?

THE ANGELUS TRUMPET            OP-ED

BAR JOSEPH: BIOLOGICAL TERRORIST?

January 29, 04:24:05:12

by Matt Hughes

If the words, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven has come near,” create a sense of angst for you, then the sudden influx of the possessed and infirm throughout the country seeking Joshua bar Joseph will cause at least a moment of suspense-filled pause.

Following forty days of retreat and reflection in the desert, Joshua bar Joseph began a new healing ministry for all comers. After healing many diseases and other minor afflictions, bar Joseph’s reputation as a healing guru spread from Damascus to Jerusalem, from Judah through Samaria, Galilee and into the outer reaches of the empire beyond the Jordan to the Palestinians.

His celebrity status has brought thousands, possibly millions, of mentally unstable people, as well as the chronically ill, streaming into our country. Who knows what contagious diseases these foreigners carry and what kind of criminal element they include? And there is no one to even determine if these people have real illnesses! These undocumented aliens strain our social resources and care, stretching our tax dollars to the limit.

Naively and apparently oblivious of his stir among the populous, bar Joseph was traveling through a wilderness area last Saturday when he turned to hear something said by one of his four disciples. Seeing the crowds gathering behind and around him, bar Joseph fled up a game trail on the nearby mountain. Finally, like a treed ‘coon surrounded by a pack of baying hounds, he faced down the crowd.

Bar Joseph’s speech, which certainly will be discussed by many over the next weeks (if not longer), began with what might be the organizing principles of a new revolution. It seems he is demanding adequate health care and counselling for the disenfranchised and the disabled.

Bar Joseph went so far as to call the rabble that followed him blessed and inheritors of some heavenly kingdom and then presented the accolades of our revered emperor—the great peacemaker and son of God—as titles for the crowd gathered before him. It all seems to be some dangerous pie-in-the-sky campaign.

There is more to come as we have time to analyze this speech and watch his further actions.