is sloth lost? (was: "underlying causative process")

[Eric Rosenbloom]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> Eric Rosenbloom wrote:
> >
> > Which brings back that ambivalence re: action. Like Jesus is willing to
> > take in all our sins but needs Judas to make the project into something.
> 
> If jesus is a fictional redemption that permits the cult to
> worship the sacrificial lamb and scape the betraying goat
> how did that fiction have such lasting power and efficacy,
> perverse or otherwise?
> 
> How are these different than what a R Catholic priest does
> before he
> consumes the body and blood of his god. Dave? It's not simply
> purgation and purification, scape goat and sacrifice, is it?

Not to get into a theological debate, but I should clarify that I said
Christianity has fetishized the scapegoat in the person of Jesus, who
takes the sins of the community into himself and away, as in the
traditional annual Jewish custom of the scapegoat. Judas, on the other
hand, is necessary to make it a story instead of just a ritual --
everything about him, suicide, jewishness, blackness, derives from the
need to whiten the worshipped scapegoat. Jesus becomes the paschal lamb
to separate him from His Goatness.

Yours,
Eric R

P.S. Christianity's lasting power is that it has no respect for nature,
an attitude that The Firm needed to give people so that It could expand
Its operations.



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