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Thankyou Philip Pullman
Blogged by James Preece on 10th September 2009
I don't know where we would be without Philip Pullman (and Mark Shea, who has essentially written this blog entry for me)...
You May Want to Sit Down For This
Phillip Pullman is about to startle the world with an absolutely brilliant and original new thesis that nobody has ever ever ever thought of before!
It turns out that Jesus was just a nice man but his followers (and especially Paul) transformed him into "the Son of God". In fact, Paul was apparently *so* persuasive that he single-handedly managed to persuade people who had seen Jesus die in one of the most horrible ways possible that their old friend was not just a misunderstood rabbi who said a few things about love and peace, but that he was actually The Word of God incarnate.
A natural enough mistake. I had a high school history teacher I liked and after he died, I met a total stranger who had never met the man. The stranger, who had hitherto despised history, told me all about this experience he had (something involve 'shrooms) where he suddenly realized he understood all of History and that my old high school teacher was, in fact, the living embodiment of God at work in the History of the world.
Boy! I can sure tell you my face was red when it dawned on me that this guy completely understood my old history teacher better than I did. I immediately started telling all my old classmates and they, naturally, totally believed the stranger as well (as who *wouldn't*?) Pretty soon we were all on board with acclaiming my old history teacher as the Son of God and the Key to Salvation History and, oh, you know... Everything! And to think none of us who actually knew him when he was here on earth understood a word he said and need some total stranger to explain it all to us! I feel so *silly*!
Hooray!
