"Why did you rape Jesus?" - sex and religion
A friend of mine was reading a draft of Simon Peter and asked, "Why did you rape Jesus?" Not really a question you hear every day, but I had an answer. I said that in studying messiahs that existed in history that many of them had histories of verified sexual abuse (like Jim Jones and David Koresh) and they all acted in ways that, to me, suggested such abuse even if it wasn't verified (after all, it's hard to verify sexual abuse, especially for historical figures who lived in a time when no one talked about that sort of thing) and each and every one of them had serious, deep and serious issues with sex.
Enter a story about Ted Haggard and the layoffs at his church. Ted Haggard - I guess I should say Rev. Ted Haggard - used to be the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, a body that has thirty million members. He was involved in a sex and drugs scandal. I'd summarize, but the quotation is too darling for me to pass up:
Well, he's now completely heterosexual! Phew. For a while there I was worried.
Anyway, this guy had a three year gay sex relationship with a male prostitute from whom he bought crystal meth. Then he denied it and only after massive evidence was clearly available did he admit, if mincingly, to "sexual immorality". THEN he gets declared totally straight by a panel of ministers. If this whole process - the hidden gay sex, the initial lies, the retraction and then being "declared completely heterosexual" - isn't profoundly perverse, I don't know what is.
This is why I raped Jesus. All of these guys are like this.
Enter a story about Ted Haggard and the layoffs at his church. Ted Haggard - I guess I should say Rev. Ted Haggard - used to be the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, a body that has thirty million members. He was involved in a sex and drugs scandal. I'd summarize, but the quotation is too darling for me to pass up:
After initially denying the accusations, Mr. Haggard confessed to buying drugs from the former prostitute, Michael Jones, and admitted to what he termed “sexual immorality.” Mr. Haggard has since gone through counseling, and was declared “completely heterosexual” by a member of a panel of ministers appointed to oversee New Life.
Well, he's now completely heterosexual! Phew. For a while there I was worried.
Anyway, this guy had a three year gay sex relationship with a male prostitute from whom he bought crystal meth. Then he denied it and only after massive evidence was clearly available did he admit, if mincingly, to "sexual immorality". THEN he gets declared totally straight by a panel of ministers. If this whole process - the hidden gay sex, the initial lies, the retraction and then being "declared completely heterosexual" - isn't profoundly perverse, I don't know what is.
This is why I raped Jesus. All of these guys are like this.
Labels: religion, sex, simon peter
8 Comments:
Not to be picky, bit I think you'll find it was Ted Haggard, not Jim Haggard.
Uh, it was always Ted Haggard, really. ;)
OK, I messed up! D'oh! Still, as a first comment to my blog I was hoping for something a little juicier than just correcting a typo. Ah, well, another dream dashed.
Sorry, I came here from the NGB. Was all out of deep thought. But hey - at least someone read it!!
True! You did read it, and for that I am grateful. It can be like casting a bottle into the ocean when you start a blog. ;)
A draft of Simon Peter? What exactly is that in reference to?
I'm writing a deeply blasphemous novel about the life and times of Jesus, and a little bit afterwards, with the protagonist being the disciple Peter. The name of the book, so far, is Simon Peter.
Deeply blasphemous, hmmm? It'd be silly to ask if it'll get them thar xtians up in lather then, I suppose.
Ever read 'Behold the Man', by Michael Moorcock?
I'm hoping it'll get them up in a lather. There is nothing better for sales than angry Christians. Nothing. As one of the Beatles said in response to their albums being burned by religious groups, "They had to buy them to burn them."
I've read Behold the Man, yeah. I went and read a large number of novels about Jesus as research and that was one of them. It's probably the closest in terms to mine in terms of what I'm trying to do, but that's shouldn't be too surprising considering Moorcock and I share a lot of the same religious and political beliefs, including a healthy dose of contempt for religion.
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