Pin Prick Parlor Trick, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

At 3 PM they claim the news was grim
A spear in the side had done him in
Friday forsaken, his fame had cashed in

Sunday surprise the zombie arose
His body in a tomb not long for repose
Can’t you see the holes in his hands

How can this be a sacrifice, if he didn’t stay dead
I see a mere pin prick, flaws in this logic
Saw the woman in half, chalk it up to magic

How can we call this brief stunt a miracle or tragic?
Just like the fall of Adam and Eve, nobody born after
Gets a reprieve, genocidal flood, humanity received

Jesus offered like the virgin in the volcano
Or the cow and goat, bath in their blood
Then cheer and gloat, as you slit their throat

A spear in the side, multiple times
A crown of thorns, on his head adorns
Out of ignorance new myths are born

Rigor mortis is the kink in this story
They leave it out because it’s too gory

Remiss I would be if I did not mention
All cells in his body would cease to function
All of his organs too with no compunction

Yet abracadabra is the magic word
Make a legend out of the absurd

Forget that hypoxia would set in
No oxygen to his brain
Nothing his for lungs to gain

Despite the real science
They believe in defiance
They grovel every Sabbath

In knelt compliance, it’s a séance
Without a ghost, or a real host
Of this fiction they love to boast

Mental coin, pulled from behind their ear
Out of the black top hat they pulled a white hare
False bottoms, slight of hand, slight of mind

This parlor trick is easy to unwind.
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The myth of the death story of Jesus is scientifically absurd. If one were to literally kill someone in the manor the bible implies happened, every cell and organ in that body would be irreversibly dead, and hours later rigor mortis would set in. There is no coming back from that.

What I mean by pin prick is that seems pretty tame for only a day and a half, if you believe the timeline of Friday afternoon to Sunday. Not to mention he didn’t stay dead, which would be a real sacrifice like the soldiers of D-Day.

“Parlor Trick” is metaphor for how people willfully trick themselves into believing this myth, like really wanting to believe the woman was sawed in half rather than consider someone made up the story. Basically willful ignorance allows them to fool themselves like a magician does relying on suspension of disbelief.