Bread Of Beelzebub (Of Man) #IHadABeerWithSatan

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#IHadABeerWithSatan (Part 6)

[The setting: A nondescript, seedy bar in an immoral district of Baltimore city. Inside the stools are of rotted wood, the bar table is sullied with dried vomit, broken glass and splashes of spilled beer long since disregarded. The drug dealer moonshining as bartender casts a scornful glance at Tony as he and Satan come and sit before him.]

+----Bread Of Beelzebub (Of Man)

[Satan swills his beer]
Tony what are these stones
strewn across your wilderness of
longing? What is a wife? What is
money and the desire for children
if not leaven
and yeast and flour of your own
latent effort petrified and turned
into rock? One day I want you to
wake from your sleep, in the frantic
morning after 40 days and nights
of restless writhing, and begin
prodding your psyche, even if in
just vain rhetoric: “Why oh my soul…
are you bereft of bread?"
"Why when surveying the terrain
of memory, dismissing the shrubs
and wild beasts of nagging fear and
prowling insecurity, a deluded son of
a carpenter full of megalomania
and interpreting everything through
the prism of an Egyptian-esque
Virgin Birth ethos, am I famished
like a pitiable human who should
be divine?” Ask yourself can these
weighty stones morph into dough,
why are these stones not bread?
Again ask yourself, “Why, if indeed
I am a son of God, am I hungry
for these good things?”

Because there is no God. No father above
who doles out wheat and rye and salt.
In this world we have to gather and
knead all alone. In the face of
the impossible odds, stones scattered in
the dirt at our feet, we have to
make our own food.



-----------------Matthew 4:1-11
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:
“‘He will command his angels concerning you,
    and they will lift you up in their hands,
    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’” Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’” Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.