Pope Innocent X (not actually relevant to the body of the post)
"Blessed are the peace makers, for they will be called sons of God"
I remembered "children of God" rather than "sons of God", but upon looking into my Greek NT, I saw clearly:
μακάριοι οἱ εἰρηνοποιοί, ὅτι [αὐτοὶ] υἱοὶ θεοῦ κληθήσονται.
and υἱοὶ is most definitely "sons".
We could meditate right about now...
I did and it came into my head that we live in the time of
"blessed are the peacemakers... yadda-yadda-yadda."
Think of what happens when one makes a satire of the Beatitudes.
Instead of insulting cartoons of various entities, what happens when we satire the Sermon On The Mount?
Why, you get Today's World, all wrapped up in a bow and looking as murderously fine as a rendition of Pope Innocent X by the painter Francis Bacon:
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note
This is the first time I tried this method of posting:
the pictures are not literally related to the prose, but are more illustrative of some other parallel and parabolic point of their own, implied by - perhaps - but not stated outright within the writing.
The second icon, Jesus, actually does directly refer to the Beatitudes, however.
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