A Few Thoughts for the Christmas Season

 

                                                            Mortification of the Flesh
Whip your sinful flesh, revel in the sores that torment you, cover your body with wounds. All of this in aid of extermination of the beastly sexual impulse within you. But this is just sensuality coming in by way of the back door when the front door, the door to fornication, is locked and sealed.
 
                                                                 Seedless Jesus

Vas. Vas. Rozanov points out that Mary was, in effect, a nun, the Virgin, the woman without sex. When we speak of the Immaculate Conception we say “not of the lust of man and not of the lust of woman” came Christ the Saviour. And the new and original thing about this new God was that He was “seedless.” “For as soon as you introduce the idea of seed, the notion of ‘seed-bearing’ into His image, you cleave that image asunder.”
                                                                                          Rozanov, Four Faces
 
                                                            Jesus as Effeminate

Christ was of necessity effeminate because He had only a mother. He had no human father; the Lord God Jehovah, his actual father, is a deity and therefore has no masculinity about him. Even though he has a long white beard.
                                                                                Rozanov
 
                                Problems With Having A God for a Father
 
Since He showed up without a father Christ was accused of being a bastard.
The other kids probably taunted little Jesus at school, called him a son of a bitch. Until he waved a pinky finger at them and turned them into pillars of salt.

[excerpted from book by U.R. Bowie, Here We Be. Where Be We?]