Companion to offerings of three days ago on this site, “Soot Soaked Hands” and “dirt.”
A very long time before our astronauts came back sick from soil deprivation and proved them right, the holy teachings of both Christian and Hindu gospels had their deities with unwashed hands ~ specifically eating with them.
That’s a freaking enormous segment of humanity, represented by those two religions…
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Recorded for (0:49): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ayc8kgyq1zjm5aywgpzff/Respectability.mp3?rlkey=ooxat60r96wa3do3fon8jcuk3&st=t973i7wt&dl=0
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Respectability
They told Him:
“We don’t talk to those people
We don’t care about them
They don’t even wash
The field dirt off their hands
Before lunch
Obviously
We are very different
We do
Wash our hands
Making us
Of course
Vastly superior citizens…”
Lunchtime came
They found Him
Sitting in the fields
Laughing with the workers
Talking about sin and redemption
With unwashed hands
Also
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