Well, I am rather pleased to be back from Philadelphia after attending the conference on “The Historicized And Mythologized Naiveté Of 19th Century Nationalist Accounts Of The Christian View Of Multiculturalism In Ottoman Cyprus.” The main speaker, Dr Evangelou Papadopoulos, lost me from the start with his impenetrable accent, monotone voice and PowerPoint presentation that was entirely upside down. Basically, it seems that the Cypriots were lax and liberal and didn’t give a damn who or what you worshiped as long as there was cheap wine. This is no way to run a country so it’s small wonder that God saw fit to divide their Island in the 20th century.
However, this is not the point. It seems that some True Christian was there too and an attempt at resurrection was made:
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Gurney with Dead Body Falls Out of Coroner's Van
Drivers traveling on a busy Lower Southampton road Friday had to navigate an unusual obstruction -- a gurney carrying a corpse.
The rear door of a van carrying the deceased person malfunctioned as the vehicle was traveling along the 100 block of East Street Road near the Bucks Crossing Shopping Center around noon, according to the Bucks County Coroner's Office.
A photo from the scene shows the dead body covered with a sheet sitting in the middle of the street as cars passed.
County officials say the coroner employee driving the van realized what had occurred immediately and circled back to the scene.
A bystander helped the driver remove the body from the road, according to LevittownNow.Com.
Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/...#ixzz37KkKTcgp
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I do not know how many times Pastor Zeke and I have told people that resurrecting the dead is not something to be entered into lightly. Even Jesus only did it when the relatives were very upset, and I don’t mean “just normally upset”. I mean upset as when the will of the deceased is unclear or he forgot to tell them where the keys to his car were, etc.
If we look at the case above, we can see immediately what has happened:
1. Jesus dies temporarily –> some guy in hospital dies
2. Jesus is taken to the tomb –> some guy is taken to the morgue
3. Jesus is placed in a tomb –> some guy is placed in an ambulance
4. The rock on the tomb is rolled away –> the doors of the ambulance are cast open with a great castance.
5. Jesus exits the tomb – gurney and body exit onto the freeway.
Now I would say that resurrecting a moving body is not as simple as you may think. Whereas with a stationary body you can concentrate your faith on the body and on Jesus, if the body’s doing a steady 30mph, this is not so easy and that delicate step of the rolling aside of the [metaphorical] rock and the exit of the “resurrectee” has to be handled carefully.
I suspect that the True Christian involved is no longer a member of Landover, perhaps it was someone like Rev. Rodimer, but whatever the case, Landover now demands that anyone wishing to resurrect a body, or attempt same, obtain a permit from Pastor Zeke or myself.