Christian love

[Kelley Walker]

At 12:39 PM 7/6/01 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Kelley Walker wrote:
>
>>but, in this case, to claim that what happened in this incident can be 
>>chalked up to the s-m tendencies of christianity just doesn't stand up to 
>>scrutiny.
>
>Let's see. The central myth of Christianity is that god took human form, 
>and in that human form was tortured, crucified, and buried, and he 
>resurrected several days later. Through suffering there is redemption, 
>forgiveness, rebirth. If there's nothing sadomasochistic about that, then 
>I'm Marie Queen of Romania.
>
>Doug

you need to read zizek again on s-m.

yeah, last i knew, the whole story was based on a slew of "pagan" practices 
that told the same story. persephone and demeter, yadda. and then you can 
find birth, death, resurrection stories in india, china, japan, south 
american, yadda.

please.