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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 (22:34:40)
"You have to strip back what the Bible says about Jesus from what the Church says about Jesus. We have two completely different figures. For example, in my own church we have this stained glass window of a white, Anglo-saxon, six-foot tall, blonde, blue eyed, Protestant Jesus. But actually, Jesus was probably five foot nine or ten, dark skinned, and would have fitted nicely as a refugee getting off a boat and arriving in this country. And he would have faced the same religious intolerance and persecution that many of these people are facing today.
We have to get our heads around who Jesus really was. He was the black guy from the north of the country who didn't fit in. He was the outcast who came with these radical ideas. It was revolutionary what he had to say and if the Church could get to grips with it, it would be a completely different institution.
We have paganised Jesus, we have taken the Christian Jesus and made him into the pagan Thor, like we have taken the goddess Diana and converted her into the Blessed Virgin.
With Roman influence, Jesus became very much like Caesar, which made Christianity the legitimate religion for empire – they couldn't have coped with Jesus the illegitimate black Jew being the key to eternal life. We have taken the established pagan religions of Rome and converted them into the liturgy and ritual of church. We are wolves in sheep's clothing.
We can have Jesus representing our particular ethnic or religious group, but let's not forget what he was really saying. We have to get back to who Jesus, the disciples and Paul really were and what they were really saying".
Rev. G.P.Taylor (best-selling author of Shadowmancer - a novel about superstition, witchcraft and magic)
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