{"id":35251,"date":"2016-07-20T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35251"},"modified":"2016-07-10T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T13:24:20","slug":"qotd-translating-the-parable-of-the-prodigal-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/qotd-translating-the-parable-of-the-prodigal-son\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Translating the Parable of the Prodigal Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Flashman [&#8230;] describes a scene where an English vicar preached to  the sepoys (native Indian soldiers) on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, through a native (Muslim) NCO interpreter, who made fun of the story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>\u201cThere was a zamindar, with two sons. He was a mad zamindar, for while he yet a lived he gave to the younger his portion of the inheritance. Doubtless he raised it from moneylender. And the younger spent it all whoring in the bazaar, and drinking sherab. And when his money was gone he returned home, and his father ran to meet him, for he was pleased \u2014 God alone knows why. And in his foolishness, the father slew his only cow \u2014 he was evidently not a Hindoo \u2014 and they feasted on it. And the older son, who had been dutiful and stayed at home, was jealous, I cannot tell for what reason, unless the cow was to have been part of his inheritance. But his father, who did not like him, rebuked the older son. This story was told by Jesus the Jew, and if you believe it you will not go to Paradise, but instead will sit on the right-hand side of the English Lord God Sahib who lives in Calcutta. And there you will play musical instruments, by order of the Sirkar. Parade \u2014 dismiss!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Flashman said he had never felt so embarrassed for his church and country in his life.<\/p>\n<p>John Derbyshire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/a-reader-proposes-an-anti-cuckservative-reading-list-starting-with-flashman\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Reader Proposes An Anti-Cuckservative Reading List\u2013Starting With FLASHMAN&#8221;, <em>VDARE<\/em><\/a>, 2016-07-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashman [&#8230;] describes a scene where an English vicar preached to the sepoys (native Indian soldiers) on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, through a native (Muslim) NCO interpreter, who made fun of the story: \u201cThere was a zamindar, with two sons. He was a mad zamindar, for while he yet a lived he gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,23,41,11],"tags":[360,971,838,47],"class_list":["post-35251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-india","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-flashman","tag-hinduism","tag-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9az","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35252,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35251\/revisions\/35252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}