wanda's wedding, historical fiction
yay post 900 HUNDREDS such accomplished.
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1949 december, israel, acre
the wedding was wonderful! one woman named wanda wobson was wearing the color that she had always dreamed for her wedding, bright greenish yellow. her parents' pressure had been huge to wear white same as every wedding but wanda wanted her favorite color and demanded "on my special day i can't be society's slave".
wanda had met her husband harold harrison in december 1947 in the same city then called "acre, palestine". his parents called him his jewish name aaron but the british document showed his name harold. his family had fled violence in russia which was also tragicly common in the countries by russia.
often the religion caused conflict because the orthodox church separate from catholic and protestant blamed the jews for their part in jesus death... which they wanted and needed for forgiveness of sin, but also wanted to blame jews. similarly polish pogroms perpetrated by catholic church... they would not "forgive" the jews until the popes announcement in the 1960's despite the desire that jesus die for their sins since that was benefit in their faith they should thank the jews for their part in the romans killing jesus which atoned sins but accused "deicide" despite not exactly a god... they weekly announce "one god the father with three persons" which is a "mystery" but one god nonetheless since nobody killed "one god the father" jews only shouting that the romans should kill jesus but not the father in heaven, and then the romans killed jesus not god the father it was not truly deicide but for catholics three in one is close enough to be deicide but if jesus death was benefit then the jews part was a part of the benefit and even jesus while on the cross said "forgive them" but catholics refused to submit to their own books and even to jesus for many centuries. despite their own book and these three factors the catholic desire to hate jews was stronger than their holy book and even the foundation of their faith that christ died for their sins.
these violence events caused death and damage to jews in russia and the region so a man named peter was a refugee fleeing the deadly pogroms and escaped russia into a boat in the black sea. he had bribed a sailor to exchange places so he would work at the sailor's position on the boat and do his jobs until the port in greece.
peter paid the sailor and went aboard the deck of the ship wearing the sailor uniform given to him by the one he bribed. for saving his life as a refugee he lied and showed the sailors paper which lacked a picture and was allowed on board for the job. peter worked hard and obeyed the captain's commands and crew commands too. he frequently made the motion of the cross the way the sailor had taught him so they would not suspect he was from a jewish family.
the slow journey went to port after port many ports along the west coast of the black sea but peter stayed on and worked. obviously much cargo was unloaded and loaded on the ship at each port. the ship passed between a narrow strait and reached the nile sea called mediteranean which is greek for med=middle between terra=land between the lands. every sea is med-terra like the adriatic sea and north sea and baltic sea so the name was the local greek name.
when the boat arrived in a greek port peter carried cargo off from the ship ashore... but undressed in the shack. he had stuffed a long sleep gown into a bag he carried so he put on the long robe. he added the cloth turban and walked out asking "mosk? mosk?" which nobody understood.
the weekly wages he had earned were with him so he had purchased a ticket to the ancient land of king solomon then named israel, but at the time of the trip named palestine due to the roman control and the name stayed for centuries. as the sun set he kneeled and pretended to pray to alla despite his rejection of any religious book. he looked like a muslim in the gown and prayed five times a day.
after a short trip of around 8 days he came to acre, palestine. he continued the muslim act by joining the muslim community in acre which was pronounced akka in arabic. he was offered a bride as common in that era and the muslim culture so he wed her in a muslim ceremony with the qadi.
peter had a daughter by his wife and she was palestinian by birth. when she reached age 14, peter arranged his daughter's marriage to a jew from europe. he prefered a jew due to his own true secret family. he used the muslim authority granted to father for arrange her wedding as he desired. their daughter, peter's granddaughter, was a jewish palestinian due to her father. she changed her name to wanda and when she met hari in 1947, they started a relationship.
a year after the name was "renewed returned refreshed israel" they wed in 1949. when the government changed from british to mixed israeli jew with israeli arab in parliament called knesset, wanda's ma rejected islam, that was in 1948. she begged her relatives to stay in the same city but they obeyed the arab leaders by leaving the british borders that had been established in the 1920's between british palestine and egypt when egypt was granted independence. similarly the border was set when jordan became independent only jew land needed to wait many years all the 1930's and until 1948 before its independence. just long enough that the jews had nowhere to flee from the nazis. harold claimed that britain had chosen not to enforce the german disarmement agreement but allowed, so he complained, the nazi to build a vast air force... this would lead to the 2 thinhs brits wanted, glory: a guaranteed british glorious victory and less jews would try come to british palestine because the nazis would obey hitlers well known published book that jews are germs and no crime to kill harmful germs.
when the cease fire was established in june 1949 she again sent a telegram to call her relatives back to her city, the war ended that month, but they wrote that they would not return. the new governemnt did the same as austria and other governments and annuled the ownership of abandoned homes which was justified as government and even more justified when the "ex-owner" did not come when he was able when hostilities ended in 1949.
in 1952, one cousin wrote that he would come, but she replied that they missed their chance in 1949 once hostilities ended they had no excuse "to flee a war zone" and had not returned using that excuse. by 1952, she explained it was too late and certainly later was even later than too late.
hari asked his marriage mom why she left islam?
she explained that the quran said that the bible of moses was good and the teaching of jesus was light therefore she felt a conflict when the teachers claimed the christian book was corrupt... that violated her commitment to quran and surely alla knew if it was corrupt yet long after the christian version was published the quran wrote it is good so she believed the quran and that the teachers were deceiving her. so she left the lying teachers of islam and went to the light of the book of jesus as she had always believed due to the quran.
she noticed that the stories were parallel yet different. when muslims say "jesus never said he was god" they mean in THEIR OWN quran the quote was not included but the christian bible has conflicting sources on this issue.
jesus did say he and the father are one... semmingly claiming diviniy and the jews understood that and were furious. she herself was between the two faiths considering jesus spoke often in parable he only meant symbolicly they are one same as usualy spoke parables and symbolic "eat my body" meaning faith.
hari challenged her why she did not go to the catholic church if she believed in the new testament.
she had studied the new testament and knew that biblical peter was married and that bishops must have one wife, in book timothy, not that peter appointed bishops as leader but the community chose someone with one wife, therefore the so-called bishops of catholic were not real bishops fue to without one wife and if any fake bishop appointed pope no real bishop existed so the appointment of pope was a fraud therefore when the fraud pope appointed by non bishops who did not have one wife, and was not married himself, he was not truly the pope with the pope authority to appoint bishops as catholics claim. so the pope was not appointed by a true bishop who could not appoint a pope who was "based on peter" while peter was married in contrast to the pope not matching its own basis of peter... the biblical peter. similarly the appointments by the unappointed pope, were not real cardinal kuz not by a true pope so they were not true bishops neither by appointment of pope nor the biblical rule of one wife in paul's letter to timothy which catholics consider holy but ignore.
for these reasons she left islam despite its billion "talkers" who say i am muslim, (oops not "believers" we only hear words and see not teach wife to cover face) who were not troubled by that conflict, or were too scared of their neighbors... she had been scared too even under the british until the liberal israel government.
when she left islam she did not accept catholic due to the pope problem not being married to one wife.
hari challenged her to do the common baptism of christianity but she had her answer for that too based on her holy book, the holy bible said one baptism. was that water? if so then the verse on corinthians (oops not colosians) all were baptised by spirit is false because one baptism not more. the fact that baptism is by spirit revealed the lie of those who claim baptism is "always water" but there not water so not every... in fact water was before jesus just a custom of john the baptist not the new faith which truly had baptism of spirit and truly one baptism, no other as one in ephesians, which she believed holy apostolic until her coworker gave a paper from bible college about deuteropaul books.
she did not fit in with the protestants either who teach water baptism despite not obligation, nor necessity same as those on the cross not baptised yet still her neighbors encouraged... but she felt that added beyond the one baptism as above.
hari was impressed by her consistency but did not accept any god. he said "i cannot reach any conclusion so it cannot affect my faith nor actions".
TWO
1950 january, acre israel. wanda was noticeably pregnant, around 17 weeks but hari did not want the responsibility of a child so he urged his wife to abort the fetus. she beleieved in christianity which taught "sanctity of life" she cannot end the life of the fetus. he tried to pursuade her "it is in your body so you can eject it if you want" she argued even if she wanted that is not realy her body since the baby is a mix of his genetic stuff. they knew that in the 1940's too. hari realized he was wrong the fetus was not her body. hari demanded a divorce... guess what? jesus taught you cannot divorce.
in desperation he tried to find a solution, despite fetus not her body but part him, he said "your body is a SLAVE to the fetus so "that choice you have for your body." wanda answered that is still not an excuse to kill it kuz only can eject it, to free herself she must have arrangements so it will not die but abortion kills it. hari was very angry at religion but his buddy said dont you believe if i broke your window that would be bad. hari agreed that is harm and bad damage. so the pal continued from the fetus perspective you are harming the fetus even a small injury is damage same as evil damage to break a window so worse if it would stop living.
so hari simply traveled to haifa. in haifa he could not find work and was expelled from his apartment home. the same night criminals who happened to speak aabic stole his shoes and stabbed this kofir the denier of muhamed and that was the end of harold harrison. had harold went to hell? how can we know?
the end.
