Weekly Readings with Catholic Fundamentalist Interpretation

Readings, November 11, 2007

2 Maccabees
Chapter 7 1 It also happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat pork in violation of God's law. 2 One of the brothers, speaking for the others, said: "What do you expect to achieve by questioning us? We are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors." 9 1 At the point of death he said: "You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up to live again forever. It is for his laws that we are dying." 10 After him the third suffered their cruel sport. He put out his tongue at once when told to do so, and bravely held out his hands, 11 as he spoke these noble words: "It was from Heaven that I received these; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from him I hope to receive them again." 12 Even the king and his attendants marveled at the young man's courage, because he regarded his sufferings as nothing. 13 After he had died, they tortured and maltreated the fourth brother in the same way. 14 When he was near death, he said, "It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the God-given hope of being restored to life by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life."

Catholic Fundamentalism Interpretation

Human viruses tried to corrupt the program that was downloaded by a mother and seven of her sons. 

The viruses tried to make them violate a command of The Programmer, but they refused.  One brother said, "We would rather die than disobey The Programming Instructions."  As his soul was about to leave his body, he said, "You accursed virus, you are depriving us of this life, but The Programmer will upload us to live forever.  We die for His laws."

The third brother was also tortured, putting out his tongue and his hands, saying, "It was from The Programmer that I received these, for the sake of His laws, I give them up, hoping (knowing) to have them re-programmed to my use."

The head virus and his lesser viruses admired the courage because he counted his sufferings as nothing.  Then, they tortured the fourth brother, who said, when his soul was about to be uploaded, "It is my choice to die at your hands with the Programmed hope of being reprogrammed to life by Him, but you will not be uploaded to (everlasting) life."

 

Reading II

2 Thessalonians
Chapter 2 16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through his grace, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word. Chapter 3 1 1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may speed forward and be glorified, as it did among you, 2 and that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked people, for not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. 4 We are confident of you in the Lord that what we instruct you, you (both) are doing and will continue to do. 5 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of Christ.

Interpretation

May our Lord, Jesus Christ, The Program in perfect, loving human form, and The Programmer, who has downloaded permanent encouragement and hope through His programming power, make sure your operating instructions are permanently written within you so that you may say and do good things.  Fellow believers in The Program, ask The Programmer to help us download The Program among others, as with you.  And, ask Him to deliver us from human viruses, for not all believe in The Programmer.  But, The Programmer is faithful, and will protect you from the most powerful viruses.  We are confident of your download's staying ability, and will continue to help rewrite over your errors.  May The Programmer keep in love with The Program and His eternal nature.


Gospel

Luke
Chapter 20 27 Some Sadducees, 1 those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to him, 28 2 saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us, 'If someone's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.' 29 Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. 30 Then the second 31 and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless. 32 Finally the woman also died. 33 Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her." 34 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry and remarry; 35 but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise. 3 37 That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called 'Lord' the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; 38 and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive."




Interpretation

Some of those with a faulty download denied there were eternal souls.  They asked The Perfect Program in human form, "Teacher, Moses told us 'If someone's brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.'  There were seven brothers.  The first married, but died childless.  Then, the second and third married her, as did the other four, and all seven died without children.  At the (so-called) resurrection, whose life will that woman be, since all seven had been married to her?"

The Program in Human Form answered, "The free will programs on earth marry and remarry, but those worthy of The New Program and the resurrection of the dead do not marry.  They can no longer die because they're like angels (more spirit than flesh) and they are God's children because they are the ones who will rise.  Even Moses told you in the passage about the bush that the dead will rise, when he called 'Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' and He is not Programmer of the dead, but of the living, for to The Programmer, all His free will programs are alive (no matter when they were alive on earth)."