The Acts of John was written in the second century, and it concerns the life of the apostle John following the death of Jesus. John is described as a kind of early Christian superhero who raises people from the dead, ruins pagan temples and commands bedbugs to go stand in the corner while he sleeps in the bed. There is a lurid tale of a man who attempts to have sex with a dead body which supposedly is all about the promotion of chastity. So it appears Christians have been spreading wild sex fantasies while at the same time promoting prudery for centuries. Clucking your tongue in disapproval while masturbating has to be some kind of art form.
The descriptions of Jesus as a kind of phantasm who can appear to people in different forms is what got the book put on the Orthodox shit list. I guess they were okay with obedient bedbugs and necrophilia.
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