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To: Grainne who wrote (34267)	4/10/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Jesus, continued: "Yet in the end, perhaps that doesn't matter, and, after all, you can't keep a good man down. Whether fictional character oo God incarnate, 2,000 years after his death as a criminal, he is still revered by millions as the king of kings. But when you get past the inherited pieties, it is striking how, when people give their view of Jesus, they are so often talking in code about themselves. To the left-wing traditionalist, he is a Knight of Columbanus. Irish bishops invoke his teachings to dissuade people from using contraception, when Jesus himself never uttered one word on the subject. Supporters of IRA hunger strikers daubed walls with 'Blessed are they who hunger for justice', when the Jesus who uttered those words preached submission to the state. And in the achingly beautiful words of Handel's Messiah he was 'a man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief'. Jesus is the greatest of all iconic figures, a text which gets translated every time it is read. We see him now, as we always have, through the flickering light of our own desires." Jesus: Man and Myth The Sunday Tribune (Ireland) March 28, 1999 by Joe O'Connor