Price we pay for love and the REAL meaning of Easter

[cronus]

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The painful price we pay for love and the REAL meaning of Easter
By BEL MOONEY

A few weeks ago, on one of the very few tall walls in our old farmhouse, we put up a dramatic, nearly life-size woodcut — actually five separate blocks — of Jesus Christ on the cross.
I’ve had it in store for ten years, with no suitable space, but at last we’ve been able to hang the work of art.
I do realise that a massive crucifixion wouldn’t be everybody’s idea of interior design. It’s more demanding and far less fashionable than the gentle head of Buddha, which crops up everywhere, from budget home stores to garden centres.
But I love this work for multi-layered reasons — and not just because the artist, Paul Riley, is an old friend.
It’s a big statement, and one which teaches me as much as it taught people in centuries past.
Why on earth would a gentle soul like me choose to live with an image of extreme suffering, torture and death? Because it is a help.
Because Easter is the most important chapter in the Christian story, and because the iconic image has important truths to tell us all — believer and non-believer alike — about the human condition.
The image of the cross towers over Western civilisation. With the joyful Nativity (complete with riotous angels in the sky) and the sombre sweetness of the Madonna and Child, it is an essential part of our consciousness.
Even a questioning intellectual like the great writer Rebecca West understood this. She wrote: ‘Jesus of Nazareth sits in a chamber in every man’s brain, immovable, immutable, however credited or discredited.’

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[Xamonas Chegwé]

Wank.

[cronus]

Wank.

Think of his poor nails though?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

‘Jesus of Nazareth sits in a chamber in every man’s brain, immovable, immutable, however credited or discredited.’

Like I said... wank. If he's in my brain at all, it's as a disgusting stain I can't quite get rid of and have to cover up when people come around. He's a skid mark on the sofa of my life - nothing more - and every bit as welcome.


WANK.

[cronus]

Now I have permission to put him in a chamber I can get started....

[JimC]

the iconic image has important truths to tell us all — believer and non-believer alike — about the human condition.

Fuck off, you arrogant prick.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

As I posted on Facebook - triggered, partly, by the OP here...





I just had a moment of realising how fucking ridiculous religion is.

How it is nothing more than old, scared men trying to enforce rules on the young to keep them in check and retain their own privilege; how it is a sick twisted joke that the world has played upon itself for generation after generation; how it is the SINGLE greatest obstacle to peace, progress and sanity that this world has ever faced, or ever will!

And, do you know what? It fucking HURTS!

I guess that is why I normally restrict myself to simply taking the piss out of the ridiculous bollocks that I am bombarded by from all sides. Sometimes seeing it as it actually is is just too much pain to handle.

I just want to gather up every christian, moslem and what-not that I know and beat Darwin, Einstein, Feynmann and Mendel into their fucking heads with a fucking hammer!!1!

Sorry about that. I'll recover. Be back to posting funny pictures of teh pope after a few more glasses of wine and a good night's sleep.

Sometimes it all gets to me though...

Sigh

[JimC]

For some, it would take a fucking big hammer!

[jaydot]

so where's this fucking 'masterly' woodcut? that pic from mel gibson's crock of shit ain't it.