Forbidden Fruit by Kerry Greenwood

Author:Kerry Greenwood [Greenwood, Kerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
Published: 2009-01-12T13:00:00+00:00

Horatio was now insistent about going home, so I went.

No Daniel in my apartment, no message. I rang his phone and got voicemail again. Where was my tall, dark and handsome? Well, I still had the missing Brigid’s diary to look through. I might as well do that.

With some reluctance, I opened the files and began to read. More complaints about Reverend Hale and his doctrine. I logged out of the blog and googled the Holy Reformed Temple of Shiloh. As I read, my eyebrows rose.

Jesus was a rich man? Jesus had a big house? If Jesus had lived now, he would have a Cadillac? Jesus hates sick people and cripples? Stands to reason, brothers and sisters, that Jesus doesn’t want to look at the world through blind eyes, it said.

Funny, that was what I had always thought he did. I read on, boggling.

Jesus died and took on the nature of Satan? Then as Satan he threw down Satan? Then he rose from the dead as a man and thus we are all of the nature of Jesus? Wait just a moment. I might not qualify as a devout Christian, in fact I probably didn’t qualify as a Christian at all, but I had sat through enough church services, quietly reading my Bible when the sermon because too tedious. That wasn’t what it said in the book, was it? Wasn’t Christ conceived as a man, because God wanted someone to experience humanity so that he could understand it, like the demigod Heracles before him? And that conception was all he needed to do to redeem us, apart from dying horribly? I remembered the Professor talking about it. Ave wipes out Eva, he said, meaning that the conception of Christ demolished the sin of Adam and Eve.

The website was confidential in that greasy, unreliable way of a man who is selling you a stolen car and picking your pocket at the same moment. When God says to me, I am, I just smile, children, I just smile and I say, I am, too.

Where was the Spanish Inquisition when we needed it? This was poisonous stuff. I felt quite shocked, and was also shocked to find that there were still things that I found—well, shocking. Why did these people want to be Christians? Why take a reasonably satisfactory religion and deform it like this? Why not make up their own, as L Ron Hubbard had done?

I had a nasty taste in my mouth. I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth.

Poor girls, to have to listen to this drivel endlessly. Not even the smarmy claims of universal love could make anyone feel better about the Holy Reformed Temple of Shiloh. I diverted myself with a fantasy of what their welcome would be like in hell. I pictured a very large and obscenely ugly demon saying, ‘Come in, Reverend, your place in the pit is all prepared.’

It was getting late. Dinner. Horatio had kitty chow (the expensive fish one which he really loves) and I made myself a steak sandwich, as I had already thawed two steaks.

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