Of all the essays I've published on The Bugbear Dispatch, this one might just be closest to my heart. And that's why I'm reposting it now, as a free post, in time for Easter.
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Related: There’s a whole genre of “benign or praise-like things Jews say about Jesus” that annoys the heck out of me because even though we explicitly have zero theological attachments to him, Saying You Like Jesus is a social requirement and/or a way to placate potentially antisemitic Christians.
The famous (and probably fake) quote from Gandhi "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ," really gets across the limits of what is allowable by Christians for non-Christian criticism.
Good stuff, Chrissy. Would love to see your take on Fr. Seraphim Rose. The death to the world zine was wildly popular with a certain set I used to know. Keep up the great work!
