― anthony, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mascara, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― ethan, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mike, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Melissa W, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― keith, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― kevin enas, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I'd pay anything to see him confront a Jew for Jesus.
― Geoff, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Kodanshi, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― mark s, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I think Jesus (the real, risen one) would probably have 'Dead Bees On A Cake' on his Walkman. Or 'Approaching Silence', Sylvian's instrumental album featuring the scores from 'Ember Glance' and 'Redemption'. Something about Sylvian's milky smugness, his religiose narcissism, would strike a chord in The Redeemer, I think.
― Momus, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― alex in nyc, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I'm no christian, by the way, I just think Jesus, or what I know of him, he sounded like a sweet well-intentioned if rather smug guy.
― matthew james, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Lyra, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Dan Perry, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Come on, the guy goes up to some fishermen and tells them 'Come follow me, I will make you fishers of men'. They're meant to drop everything and become his crew. He welcomes them with this cheerful message: 'Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.'
He regularily calls multitudes around him to make speeches calling other people (usually 'scribes and pharisees') 'fools, hypocrites and blind'. Hungry one day, he sees a fig tree and hopes he'll be able to eat figs. But 'he found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.' What a drama queen!
― anthony, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Jesus - the Chuck D of his time ?
― Patrick, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― tha chzza, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
It's there in the New Testament, Tracer: John 12:3 'Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? ...Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.'
Pfffff! Now that Siddharta Gotama, on the other hand, what a lovely man...
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Though I haven't been a Christian since I was 16, I think Jesus has gotten a bum rap thanks to his overzealous followers (sort of like John Lennon). Too many embellishments and encrustations on what he really said or intended, thanks to those cranky disciples and camp-followers.
Remember, Jesus doesn't seem to have written a single word to defend himself (if he could write at all). For a very readable and convincing analysis of what Jesus might REALLY have said, before the editors and censors got to work, seek and ye shall find Stephen Mitchell's book "The Gospel According To Jesus," which attempts to winnow the wheat from the chaff. That fig-tree story, for instance, was uncharacteristic, smug and petulant-- much more likely from the hand of an idiot apostle who wanted to make his fuhrer seem even more divine. In essence, you get down to only a handful of things which the experts agree Jesus must have said (that is, if you believe he existed at all), the primary being, "The kingdom of God is within." I thought it might be Disney's Magic Kingdom, but, oh well...
Looking forward to the release of "The Bible: Original Soundtrack"...
― X. Y. Zedd, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― X. Y. Zedd, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mike Hanley, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Aleksandr Werning, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― bob snoom, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)