Last
Thursday night I went to church.
Actually I was there to attend an art venue: a
concert by the Irish Descendants. I had
not been in a church for a number of decades and I was surprised how it
affected me. A large stained glass
representation of a tall, sandy hair Jesus stared down at me from
over the alter. I felt absolutely
disgusted as everything in the church screamed of hypocrisy.
The tendency
of our race to portray the image of Jesus and the disciples in conformance with
our cultural norms was clearly on display, when anthropology states the
Galilean Semites men of that era were dark skinned, dark hair with average
height around five feet and weight about 110 pounds.
The
ostentatious display of décor - ornate architecture, carpeting, engraved pews,
six stained glass windows, rich alter trimmings – stood in the face of the
poster asking the congregation for used coats for underprivileged
school children.
All in all
it seemed surreal as the Irish Descendants sang about a sailor getting laid by
a hooker and having his clothes stolen.
the Ol’Buzzard
Ha ha, I know that song!
ReplyDeleteAnd for some reason when I think about that kind of church, Mac Davis starts singing in my head. "Gee but it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way".
ReplyDeleteLove the Irish Descendants. Church not so much. Christianity, including Orthodoxy is mainly a European religion thanks to Rome and Constantinople. So making God in their own likeness is not too surprising. As to names, I suspect that the European world adopted the Bible names as they were in the 2nd or 3rd century so they became European names. Even the Bible quotes Shakespeare as someone once quipped.
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