Christianity and S/M

Mark Rickling rickling at softhome.net
Tue May 22 21:53:41 PDT 2001


From: "Matt Cramer" <cramer at unix01.voicenet.com>


> The central theme of Christianity is not the crucifixion, but the
> resurrection. Christianity, as a superposition of various religions from
> Gnosticism to Roman Catholicism to Fundamental Protestantism, always
> revolves around the resurrection, as allegorical myth or literal reality.

Hmmm. I was under the impression that one of the main features that distinguished the Gospel of Thomas and the Gnostic gospels from the four that made it into the canonical New Testament was the lack of a resurrection narrative.

mark



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