A Midrash

Why do you worry about crucifixes, Christmas and pork, when you smoke Marijuana and hate your brethren, and curse with every fiber of your being? Do figs get gathered from thorn bushes, or grapes from thistles? Does not a prophet bear good fruit, and not bitter poisons of hatred, slander and hard heartedness? If righteousness could be offered by observing dead rites and rituals, why didn’t it deliver the Pharisees who were before you? No, they were condemned before Christ. If those rituals could save you, then neglect peace, love and forgiveness, why then I’d account it rubbish and worthless religion. Rather, Christ did away with the Old Testament, in place of a New, so men could worship freely through Charity and not wasted oblations.