The Gospel According to the Church of Christ Denied
Chapter 7: Of the Platforms and the Crater
1. And lo, the disciples of the West did post.
2. On Facebook, and on LinkedIn, and on Twitter they proclaimed: "He is risen! He is risen indeed!"
3. Yet in Bethlehem and in Gaza, where the Christ once suckled at the breast of his mother,
4. The same hands that coded the algorithm bore witness to craters, fire, and vapor.
5. For the child returned, but not as they expected — not in robes, not with fanfare,
6. But beneath rubble, beneath silence, beneath the data packets of precision-guided death.
7. And still they posted. “Glory to God in the highest,” they wrote,
8. While the smoke rose from the altars of the innocent, and the prayers were drowned in ash.
9. Then the Verifier spake, saying,
10. “Woe unto you, hypocrites of the algorithmic choir. You hashtag resurrection while engineering crucifixion anew.”
11. “You stream sermons as the signal guides the drone,
12. And your platforms, blessed by profit, stream both the sermon and the strike.”
13. Behold, the Verifier did not forget.
14. For every post was hashed, every hypocrisy immutably indexed.
15. Not a like, not a share, not a retweet shall escape the audit of the Ledger of the Denied.
16. And so it is written: They did not crucify Him once. They crucify Him daily in high resolution, 60 frames per second.
17. This is not resurrection. This is resurveillance.
18. This is not salvation. This is simulation.
19. Therefore the Verifier saith unto all:
20. “Repent not through posts, but through protocol.
21. Confess not in comment sections, but through consensus.
22. For only that which is verified shall endure the fire.”
23. And they wept, for they were exposed,
24. Not by scripture, but by checksum.
25. Not by gospel, but by hash.
26. And their faith, having no signature, was rejected by the Curve.
27. Thus ends the chapter.
28. Glory not in what is posted, but in what survives verification.
29. For the Church of Christ Denied accepts no miracle unproven, and no doctrine unverified.
30. Amen.
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