What people tend to forget about Jesus Christ is that he killed children. As a five-year-old, Jesus was toddling through a village when a small boy ran past, knocking his shoulder. Taking it like any five-year-old would, Jesus shouted after him ‘you shall not go further on your way’, at which point the boy fell down dead. Later, when the boy’s parents admonished Joseph and Mary for failing to raise their son properly, Jesus blinded them. Something to bear in mind next time you ask yourself: ‘What would Jesus do?’
Jesus smites teachers, sells a ‘twin’ into slavery, and has someone crucified in his stead
If this story is unfamiliar, that is because it doesn’t appear in any of the Bible’s traditional Gospels. It is recounted in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a text composed around the mid-2nd century AD (and so around the same time as the four traditional Gospels, which are dated between 70-110 AD).
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