What’s worse – saying Jesus was gay, or calling him fictional?
February 19, 2010
Why wouldn’t Jesus be gay?
Honestly.
So i guess you’ve noticed that Elton has done a John Lennon and made a comment about how Jesus is just like himself. One of the celebrity bloggers added to the outrage by saying that Jesus was a fictional character anyway, so why wouldn’t he be gay like Batman.
Of course the minute you mention Jesus, you’ll get fifteen thousand comments flaming each other with the torches of internet comment hell. Well no i won’t, but mr superficial got many, mostly because he dared use the F word: fictional!
Anyway i left my own comment there, and this is it:
There’s a great book called “The Pagan Christ” by Tom Harpur, a Canadian Anglican minister. He explores the Christ stories back to 5000BC.
..and similarly to the Zeitgeist movie, Harpur concludes that the original “Yasu Christos” stories contained a series of metaphors for the human soul’s journey through this life..
.. but the early Christians decided it would help their church if the guy had really lived.
The stories make more sense to me if it’s about the human soul, actually: if you stay connected with your soul during this life, you can walk across the waters of your troubled emotions, always find plenty of food to feed your family and friends, heal the sicknesses that devastate us.
i guess Christians prefer to project that power onto an external spiritual being. And why not, if being powerful upsets you.
Yes i’m certainly in the tiny minority for entertaining these thoughts. Even non-Christians usually believe that this actual person walked the earth at some stage. Not me. The stories are bigger and stronger than that.
Peace be with you all, despite your different beliefs.
michael
Links:
photo credit: looking4poetry- Mr Superficial’s incendiary response to Elton’s outrageous comment.
- A long article explores the idea that the historical Jesus is fictional over there: nobeliefs.com/exist.htm
- Tom Harpur’s “Pagan Christ“
- Zeitgeist the movie (Yes i know, it’s a terrible mish-mash of conspiracy junk, but we love that stuff!)
Some great photos from flickr.com
photo credit: danny.hammontree
photo credit: The Searcher
Landlords behaving like mongrels
August 18, 2008
So now i find out that John and Bob were lying all the time. It was just a game to them.
But i miss something.. my house!!
John signed a legal document saying that his family would move in after we vacated. He assured me that Bob was moving in. I even thought that it would be good for them.
We spent so long thinking that John was a good and decent man who would treat his tenants respectfully. i think back to the time when he said to my mother (!) that i was like one of his family.
Now i find out that they’ve doubled the rent and put new tenants in the house. So their annual income goes up from $10k to $20k overnight.
Trouble is that if you say family is moving in, you are not legally allowed to rent the place out within six months
.. and i hope the potential fines are really big.
As i say this, i know i’ll have a battle getting my full bond back, because they’ve been disputing the amount that Angelina originally paid.
Grrr.
Update:
John looks at the original (bond) receipts Angelina sent me and says, “That’s not my handwriting, and it’s not my signature.”
Ugh. Somebody’s making a monkey out of me. What is going on!
Plus: there are no fines for kicking out tenants under false pretences, doubling the rent and re-letting the premises. Apparently there’s a difference between ‘illegal’ and ‘unlawful’; which means i can sue them for the cost of moving, but nobody will lock them up or fine them. Damn.
