h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Please don't ask how I ended up finding this.


At the link there is a carefully[] argued case made by a Muslim person that if Christianity were to be internally consistent, the Crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans would more appropriately [] be the gang rape of Jessica by a bunch of Jews.

Fortunately, the author is clumsy and wrong on so many points that the whole thing is simply [very uncomfortably] risible.

But it certainly makes one marvel at the contortions capable in a religious mind.

http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/archives/2005/crucifixion-of-jesus-or-the-holy-rape-of-jessica/

Yes. It really is titled 'Crucifixion of Jesus or The Holy Rape of Jessica?'

But now that I think of it, it reminds me of the post-Modern, deconstructionist, theory-over-loaded drivel most inaccurately labeled as 'literary criticism' I had to read far too often when I was an undergraduate.

Could it be a joke?

(I'm surprised no one had any comment on this.)

I wonder why 'Jessica'? Why not, oh I dunno, 'Doris', or 'Babs'?

I figure they were just lazily looking around for a girl's name that had a vague resemblance to 'Jesus'.

>>..post-Modern, deconstructionist, theory-over-loaded drivel..<<

You mean as are reviews typically found in 'fine art' mags?

Yes.

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&source=hp&q=feminine+christ&meta=&aq=1&oq=feminine+chris&fp=53b27f7a7a96cd50

Personally, if I was forced to accept a progeny of an all-seeing, all-knowing, omnipotent god I would rather accept a female. Which explains two marriages and two divorces.....

Speaking of a feminine Christ:

Whilst visiting a small local gallery and discussing the possibility of submissions, the curator, who is familiar with some of my paintings, suggested that they might be interested if I did something 'a little more edgy' than my usual work. So . . .


I've been working on on a new version of an image that has been with me for years and that I've worked up a few times in the past . . .


Eve,

nailed to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,

the Apple (in this case a pomegranate) still hanging on one branch

the Serpent hanging dead on another branch with his blood dripping down onto

Adam, sitting on a boulder, looking dejected, with a hammer in his hand.



perhaps I could also submit my tableau of naked cave-women painting the paleolithic caves



and the design I came up with for a proposed new beer at a certain local brewery: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BpGYG3QGEVo/SqBJ6eupcJI/AAAAAAAAALg/QRZsdv6CllU/s1600-h/bub%2520ganesha.jpg

(Engage Peter Sellers East Indian accent)

Most satisfactory!!

(one wonders wherein zoomer is finding his satisfaction: the crucifixion, the cavewomen, or the Indian Ale.)

Haven't got my head around this one yet, but it looks ... interesting. I might throw it out to one of the Christian messageboards I post on.

TRiG.

Truly, my reaction to it is that it truly is simply deconstructionist drivel, the sort of thing that is too often produced in literary criticism. But in literary criticism, unlike religion, there are rules, the most important of which is 'this is the product of a human brain at a specific point in history and a specific point in space'. With theology, and Christology, there are no rules of time and space. Jesus is the new Adam and his blood flows down onto the bones of Adam and redeems Adam and us (when we drink his blood and eat his flesh) and Eden is in Jackson County, Missouri.

The tennis game truly has no net.