The Gospel
According to...
by Oonah V
Joslin
“Where’d
they find it?”
“That’s
the beauty of it. ‘Xactly where you’d
expect. Digging foundations in Bethlehem.”
“That’s
too spooky.”
“Darned
right!”
“And it
was just there?”
“Yip!
Staring ‘em in the face. Of course it’s
only a fragment.”
“Naturally.
Like them Dead Sea things.”
“Well,
you’d hardly expect to find an entire Gospel.
Ripped out of an old exercise book, it was.
S’pose paper must’ve been scarce.”
“What’d
it say?”
“Well,
according to the news, pretty much what
you’d think. Ask and it shall be given unto
you. Take and ye shall have. Bomb and it will be
opened unto you.”
“And
ain’t that the authentic language, though.”
“Sure is.
Wrote in old fashioned English - just like the
original.”
“Does it
say anything else?”
“Says the
people of Gad shall prevail, 'gainst economic
crisis, enemies and allies - or all lies. The
writing’s not that great in places.”
“Well,
it’s a comfort.”
“Best of
all at the bottom it’s signed Jesus AD 29
and it has one of them thar ichthus marks on.”
“A what?”
“A fish
– you know it’s like a goldfish or
something. And right on the lasy line it says Gad
Bless America.”
“Amen!”
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