“I’m glad they captured that. ‘Cause it escapes most people,” self-described Biblical scholar, pluralist and guy-that-thinks-he-can-be-a-pastor-without-attending-a-seminary Vin Rent said.
The Israelites and the prophets of Baal hosted the shindig on Mount Carmel and they said they did it in the name of one very important philosophy: “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” according to Rent.
Rent said the event even saw God and Baal show up in person, after Baal woke up from all the screaming his followers were doing a the wild party going on on the mountain.
God and Baal warmly greeted one another, using their personal handshake followed by a hardy backslap.
“We’re cool,” Baal said.
God proceeded to the grill where an ox had been doused in water waiting for him to set it on fire.
“I’m glad that we can all see how tolerant God is of other gods,” Rent said. “It’s not like He ever said, ‘I the Lord your God am I jealous God,’ or anything like that. That’d just be nuts.”
“We can’t just stop at talking to these people. We need to whole heartedly accept everything they believe so that we can all get along.”
Elijah and the Israelites then road off with their “COEXIST” stickers attached to their donkeys’ rumps.
Rent said he had not made it to translating 1 Kings 18:40* yet.
Footnotes (since we knew you’d be too lazy to right click and Google it):
- Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape.” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
Like we said, wild party.