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Reader Feedback on "Brothers in Christ"
This is more complete and utter bullshit that comes out from gay wanna-bes, attempting to "spiritualize" their state of entrapment in the phenomena of the world and lustful attachments. If you think that any master on the level of a christ would have a consciousness remotely resembling your lustful, attached, illusion-delusion based state, you're truly fucking mad!
Remember, to be truly two-spirit and spiritual, is to have sexuality not be a question at all. It has nothing to do with duality. I guess it really gets old to hear all this wanna-be "spritual" bullshit from unenlightend people who happen to be gay and think that by virtue of that fact alone, they are enlightened. When, in reality, they are far, far from it.
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07/16 |
The non-sense that gets tossed around as scholarship these days is beyond belief. This book relies heavily on “readings" or more accurately wishful interpretations of history, and a single artifact which many scholars find suspect. But as the popularity of the Devinci Code has shown, bad scholarship never gets in the way of a sensational story. The story here is meant to challenge accepted beliefs and offer a warrant of divine sanction to validate Gay culture. This in not serious scholarship, it is more akin to Hal Lindsey’s Late Great Planet Earth or I.J. Gallagher’s The Case for Ancient Astronauts. This is not serious scholarship; even the cover art of the book screams cheap exploitation.
--JB
04/25 |
SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK may be a fake by scholar Morton Smith (see earlier post). If not, or even if so, this was meant to be a "gnostic" allegorical quasi-exoteric story. To Gnostics, whether or not Jesus the Nazerene ever existed was very much beside the point. A new documentary makes a very convincing case that he did not. see http://www.thegodmovie.com/ The message was in the mytheme as was also the case in many pagan cults.
Consider this gospel the gay sex version of early Christian tantra. Marcionites, Valentinians, Basilidians, Manicheans, and other Christian Gnostics each had a different path to experience transcendental mystic enlightenment. The Capocrateans used sexual rituals, but as far as I know, only
str8.
--S S
04/25 |
Perverted Trash!
--BB
04/24 |
I think it's as legitimate an interpretation of the life of the person called Jesus as any. Though I'm not a student of Druidic practices, it's a known fact that Christianity borrowed liberally from Druidic traditions and celebrations, I don't really consider it out of the bounds of reality to say that sexual rituals might have been used in early Christianity.
If you ask me, the evil perpetuated by the Christian church, the gross misinterpretations of the collected parables called the "holy" Bible is much more of an affront to any clear thinking person than the suggestion that Jesus liked to have sex with boys or girls.
The Bible isn't the word of god...it's what people have decided it is. If someone decides the Bible says God is a hippo in a pink tutu, it's no less relevant than what the two thousand years of scholars have decreed.
Really...if you think that saying Jesus liked having sex with men, or maybe didn't like it-just did it as magickal ritual...is sacrilege or debasing to others beliefs, that speaks more to your own prejudices.
It's literally unknowable and if it helps one person feel better about their existence on a tiny planet suspended in a vast and uncaring universe, then who cares?
I mean really...
And I honestly think the Bible has some nice things to say and that Jesus was a super guy with lots to teach but God is not in the sky, truth is not in a book and people do not have any answers except to say decide for yourself.
Positing as many explanations as possible can only help.
--SLS
04/22 |
I think it is interesting how negative all the feedback about this article is! While I agree that the legitimacy of the Secret Book of Mark should be questioned, is it that upsetting to see Jesus or Christianity portrayed in a new way? I also find it unlikely that Jesus used same-sex intercourse as a means of worship, but I would still be interested in actually reading what this author has to say about it before writing it off as "disrespectful" or an "attack" on Christianity. Did you people think you were visiting the Focus on the Family website or something!?
--JAD
04/20 |
"Morton Smith, followed by Crossan, Koester, and others, has argued that the Secret Gospel of Mark was a source of canonical Mark's narrative. This position, though, is untenable. First, despite the modern consensus, the possibility that the letter is a modern forgery from the eighteenth century has not been completely excluded. Second, Clement is often unreliable in his use of sources, and so even if his letter is authentic, this does not mean that what he says about the Secret Gospel of Mark is correct. Third, what we have of this document is highly fragmentary. Fourth, no consensus exists among those who see this document as a source of Mark." Therefore, it is highly unlikely that the Secret Gospel of Mark, if it existed at all, was a source of canonical Mark. Smith's efforts to reconstruct the history of early Christianity on this uncertain foundation, arguing that a sexually libertine, magic-working Jesus was reinterpreted in later canonical Gospel tradition, is correctly regarded by the vast majority of scholars as pure fantasy." [Robert E. Van Voorst, Jesus Outside the New Testament (Eerdmans:2000), p.211]
--dm
04/20 |
I agree. This and Steve Almond's stupid and profane attempt at being edgy (or whatever) whiffs of lame-ass soft-gay-porn. Yawn. Nerve, you've got some really good writers - occasionally. Why did you stop at this junk?
--fu2
04/19 |
Oh please, gay artists and authors always pick on religions to stir up controversy to bring attention to themselves or their art. This is just another lame attempt by a talentless gay author. If its not the painting "Piss Christ" of feces on a staue of the Virgin Mary its crap like this. I'm not even religious, but how about showing some respect to those that are and not desecrating their beliefs. Everyones beliefs deserve respect even if they are not your own.
--JOM
04/19 |
Upcoming in the Michael Jackson trial- Jacko claims Christ has instructed him to have young boy sleepovers to fulfill the precedent He set in the Secret Gospel of Mark.
Sabra Wineteer
--SDW
04/19 |
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