I see the “big issue” over the Da Vinci Code as less an upset over the primariness of his human nature, but rather his survival past the “sacrifice” of his crucifixion.

Wait, but that’s not even in the Da Vinci Code, as far as I remember! Certainly not in the movie! They never say anything except that Magdalene fled and gave birth. They don’t mention Jesus not being crucified.

Anyway, it’s an interesting book, better written than DVC, and with more interesting characters, IMHO.

…to worship Jesus the Risen Lord while ignoring just about everything He said.

That seems like a fairly good sum-up of Christianity, as I know it. I don’t necessarily even think Jesus was right about everything, so it’s not that people don’t follow his teachings I take issue with, but the hypocracy of calling yourself a Christian while ignoring most of what he said, that really gets me. The sheer un-Christian-ness of it all, geez!

Speaking of the crucifixion being a sham, I read an interesting bit about Jesus in a Seth/Jane Roberts book once. According to it, Jesus wasn’t crucified at all. A man got crucified ‘as’ Jesus, but it was some crazy dude who thought he was Jesus. I don’t remember how or why exactly he took Jesus’ place, but there was quite a bit mentioned about it a new myth being created from higher levels of consciousness, and how it didn’t matter who acted it out. In any case, Jesus went into hiding while his religious-fanatic stunt double hung on the cross. The Resurrected Jesus was just the alive, real Jesus. He played along with what people believed, though, as that was part of his role in the creation of the new myth.

So that story goes anyway.

Yes, this is true. Conflicts with the Nicean creed. Which of course was one of many wrong turns made by the Xtian faith.

What is interesting about the whole Nicean thing is that it essentially permits Xtian faithfuls to worship Jesus the Risen Lord while ignoring just about everything He said.

You find yourself calling Christians un-Christian when you don’t even call yourself one.

heh heh. heh heh. heh heh heh heh. I see a lot of that on the left side of the blogosphere. It even describes me a little bit.

The issue of what it means to be divine and what it means to be human is very complex and profound. But Christian reactionaries seem to be obsessed with the idea that a physically generative Jesus somehow detracts from His divinity.

On Humanism, there seem to be strands to it that lead to a very Nietzschean space, so even if Xianity was the foundation for humanism, rationalism, renaissance etc., it can become very alien. People share an ancestor with fungus, after all.