It's the Gospel Truth, ya Boofhead
In the beginning was the word, and the word was "G'day!"
That's how the New Testament might have begun if Jesus was born Australian.
An Australian author has rewritten parts of the Bible stories.
To some, it may be a screech of tortured vowels and supressed consonants, but to Kel Richards, author of "The Aussie Bible" (bits of it) it is a rich vein of regional idioms and slang. The book has been backed by the Bible Society of New South Wales to help win new readers....anything for converts.
The three wise men, for example, becomes three eggheads from out East who go in search of the baby jesus. "We saw a star out East, and we've come to say G'day Your Majesty.
The Good Samaritan gets attacked by bushrangers and the Australian jesus says those who build houses on sand are boofheads, Psalm 23, reconstructed as a bush ballard begins, God is the Station Owner, and I am just one sheep. He musters me down to the lucerne flats, and feeds me there all week.
How far will this go and only an Australian would get away with this, but I love the gall of it.
all things Biblical aside, life has been pretty scary lately, I have been expericencing the powers within myself at the same time experiencing a shift from breeder to non breeder, womanhood to crone. What a crazy mixed life, I hadn't realized just how rigid and routine I had become until I got tipped on my head and had a sudden rush of blood to the cranial regions of my antamony. Life is simpler but much busier.
Share a simple word of encouragement or praise to someone today and tomorrow and the day after........MAKE IT A HABIT
In the beginning was the word, and the word was "G'day!"
That's how the New Testament might have begun if Jesus was born Australian.
An Australian author has rewritten parts of the Bible stories.
To some, it may be a screech of tortured vowels and supressed consonants, but to Kel Richards, author of "The Aussie Bible" (bits of it) it is a rich vein of regional idioms and slang. The book has been backed by the Bible Society of New South Wales to help win new readers....anything for converts.
The three wise men, for example, becomes three eggheads from out East who go in search of the baby jesus. "We saw a star out East, and we've come to say G'day Your Majesty.
The Good Samaritan gets attacked by bushrangers and the Australian jesus says those who build houses on sand are boofheads, Psalm 23, reconstructed as a bush ballard begins, God is the Station Owner, and I am just one sheep. He musters me down to the lucerne flats, and feeds me there all week.
How far will this go and only an Australian would get away with this, but I love the gall of it.
all things Biblical aside, life has been pretty scary lately, I have been expericencing the powers within myself at the same time experiencing a shift from breeder to non breeder, womanhood to crone. What a crazy mixed life, I hadn't realized just how rigid and routine I had become until I got tipped on my head and had a sudden rush of blood to the cranial regions of my antamony. Life is simpler but much busier.
Share a simple word of encouragement or praise to someone today and tomorrow and the day after........MAKE IT A HABIT
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7:31 PM
