The sexuality of Jesus
February 24, 2008 by Bill
“The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art” received rave reviews several years ago when it was first released. It was written by Leo Steinberg, who originally delivered the material at a Columbia University Seminar and was honored by the College Art Association of America with its annual award.
Those who find expressions of sexuality offensive will, no doubt, not want anyone to look at the pictures. Our ‘born again’ U.S. Attorney General recently had a nude statue covered with cloth so that her bare breasts would not be visible. The present Bush administration seems loaded with such psycho-ceramics (crack-pots). Out of 185 nations only the Bush administration and the Vatican recently blocked a world wide sex education program sponsored by the United Nations. The Vatican obviously does not want those sweet little choir boys sexually educated. The priests are available for their perverse instruction.
The sexuality of Jesus is very obvious in the paintings. Jesus was a Hebrew male, a man in the fullest sense and a sexual human being in the same sense that all men are sexual human beings.
And yet, for some strange, neurotic and weird reason many want to keep this subject behind drawn shades or else locked in the closet. Many times in study groups and seminars when I have presented material that would indicate that Jesus was either married or had a mistress, there has been a tensing up. But after thinking it over…a gradual relaxing with the subject.
Steven Weinberg
February 17, 2008 by Bill
Dr. Steven Weinberg is one of the true, authentic, Renaissance men of our time. He has been called the “Einstein” of our day. He won the Nobel Prize for uniting the electro-magnetic and the weak nuclear forces into a single force. He is a founding director of the Jerusalem Winter School of Theoretical Physics; is on the Council of Scholars, the Library of Congress; he holds honorary doctoral degrees from major universities all over the world. He taught at MIT and Harvard. Nobody since Loren Eiseley and Lewis Thomas has written so beautifully turning science into poetry.
He recently was awarded the Lewis Thomas prize, given to the scholar who “best embodies the scientist as poet.”
He prefaced his acceptance speech by saying…”what a joy to be at a meeting that doesn’t start with an invocation.” He went on to say that”the great passion of his life, with science, is to free human beings from the superstition of religion” and he continued:
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. Science should be taught ignoring religion. One of the social functions of science is to free humans from superstition.”
Jefferson and the Christian superstition
February 10, 2008 by Bill
When John Kennedy was President, he gave a banquet in the White House that was without precedent. The banquet was for every living American Nobel Prize winner, with about 150 present. At the beginning of the evening, President Kennedy stood and announced he would make a toast. He said: “Never has so much talent…and so much genius…been assembled in one room…since Thomas Jefferson dined…alone.”
The author of the Declaration of Independence, brilliant philosopher, theologian, architect, linguist, scholar, statesman, scientist, musician, horticulturist, agronomist, humanist, deist and master of the civilized arts wrote this:
“I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites, to support roguery and error all over the earth.”
The Jeffersonian Bible became famous and is now in the Smithsonian. Jefferson, literally, took scissors and paste and cut out a few of the parables of Jesus that he thought had ethical value and that was his bible.
