Blicero

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

OK, we have nearly established a framework. 

The first question: is Blicero's myth more satanic and
sadistic than the christian myth?

What christian myth? 

The myth(s). (As opposed to the "historical Jesus."

And where in the myths do we find Jesus likes being nailed
to across? 

and 

What story of Jesus?  Can we explain where in A story of
Jesus, Jesus can be said to like or love--erotically or as
something "higher"  being nailed to a cross?

Or, is this an interpretation of a particular story? Which
one? Can
we discover this interpretation?

The people who write and read the myths are the ones
investing the
Passion with overtones of eroticism and fetish
body-piercing, as well as
all that stuff about heroic martyrdom and redemption and so
forth. 

We can find art and stories that depicts jesus being nailed
to a cross and liking it, loving it, experiencing erotic
pleasure, but are these artistic representations part of the
christian myth that we are comparing to Blicero?  

If so, and if it is the people who write and read the myths
that invest these overtones in the art, can we discover to
what extent these overtones are due to the artist's
intentions and to what extent they owe these passions to the
reader? And if all we can say with this, is that the
passions of a reader of GR and the passions of the same
reader of A story of jesus--part of a myth of jesus we can
locate in GR--asserts that Blicero's myth is no more satanic
and sadistic than the christian myth, we will have settled
this matter. 

This is the real tough nut, but if we can agree here, we can
make sense of our disagreements and agreements as concerns
the more important questions and "parallels." 

The other parallels:  An omnipotent and wrathful god?
Sacrifice of a/the Son, His Word made flesh? Transcendence,
apotheosis, and vicarious salvation for the faithful?


Note: For most people in the world, worldviews, and
particularly religious beliefs, are acquired through family.
For most people in the world, such primal beliefs, are the
precondition for acceptance and understanding of the
worldviews of their adult lives. The great world religions
continue to govern the ways in which the majority of humans
interpret the world. I don't want to offend anyone with this
discussion. It is not my intention to question or insult
anyone's spiritual relationship to a myth or religion, god,
worldview or system of thought.