What would Jesus make of these scenes at the Holy Sepulchre Church? What indeed would he make of the very existence of such a building - or of 'Christianity'?
The site seems to have attracted brawling and eccentricity from the get-go. Perhaps JC and his posse were a rougher bunch than we credit. Have you visited it? I went once and was soon grabbed by a beardie-weirdie and taken to his corner of the church so that I could put my mite into his collecting box before anyone else got a look in. It may have been mad but it wasn't bad. I rather hope that JC would have enjoyed the show and then moved on to do the real overturning business in the Westfields of our world.
Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
He would think "Life of Brian gets funnier every time I watch the DVD"
ReplyDeleteThe site seems to have attracted brawling and eccentricity from the get-go. Perhaps JC and his posse were a rougher bunch than we credit. Have you visited it? I went once and was soon grabbed by a beardie-weirdie and taken to his corner of the church so that I could put my mite into his collecting box before anyone else got a look in. It may have been mad but it wasn't bad. I rather hope that JC would have enjoyed the show and then moved on to do the real overturning business in the Westfields of our world.
ReplyDeleteYou're right there Mark - and no doubt JC wld find plenty of comedy in the spectacle of Xtianity - he was Jewish after all.
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