Dennis Leary = Putz

I'm listening to Glenn Beck's interview with actor and erstwhile comedian Dennis Leary. What a putz! I don't mind the obligatory jokes about wacky nuns in his childhood Catholic school, although those jokes are so old that Methuselah remembers them, and there weren't even nuns in his time. And I understand that many children interpreted admonitions as promoting fear.

But he, now as a big boy adult all grown up and everything, really crosses the intelligence line with two points. One is to not understand what "fear of God" really means. I noticed Glenn tried to throw him a little lifeline by using the word "awe" but of course, DL (author of the upcoming book "Kiss My Irish A$$" so draw your own conclusions about the title and character) ignores Glenn's hint.

Fear of God means to have respect for God as the creator of all, and the one who will judge how one conducted one's life. Fear refers not to "terror" but fear refers to the fear of losing one's way to God, and ultimately, losing salvation.

The second point is the crack that he would have respected Jesus Christ more if he had "taught the people to fish" rather than produce the bread and fish miraculously to feed the hungry crowd. This comment is so stupid in so many ways that I'm tempted to ignore it, but oddly, it's the second time I heard that "criticism" in the past two days. Devil PR? LOL. Makes one wonder.

Anyway, first of all, all the people who attended the sermons knew better than Jesus (a carpenter) how to fish and farm, dummy. That's how they lived and supported their family. Dennis, I know it's hard to imagine a time before D'Agastinos, but try really hard. All of those people raised and caught their own food already.

In fact, if you had been awake during Bible lessons you'd remember that a good half of the apostles were fishermen by trade. Jesus would accompany them fishing and point out good spots, but the apostles provided Jesus with his fish meals (including once after the resurrection, before he ascended into heaven.) So Jesus was actually the one who would not have been doing any "teaching you all to fish" lessons.

Instead, you had thousands of men (and some of their families, the Bible only counts the men in attendance) sitting all day listening to Jesus preach, far from their home food stash. Dude, think of it like being at a really big Woodstock but no one brought anything to eat. People were faint with hunger, and in those days, there was no Walmart to go to for fixings for thousands of people. People walked in those days, miles and miles, to hear Jesus and they were faint with hunger at the end of the day. So he performed the miracle so that the Bible would not record "and thousands of people suffered low blood sugar and little children cried with hunger and where is a Samaritan when you need one."

Don't believe it you want, that's fine with me. But don't be a willful dummy at a time when people are being killed for their religious beliefs. It's not funny and it's not nice.