Jesus Came

Sacred cows make the tastiest burgers. Any topic is suitable for discussion. And for satire. Well done.

you are to be commended for taking this topic on. In view of the fact that there's a scholarly work out there (by Professor Morton Smith of Columbia University)presenting evidence of Jesus' actively gay lifestyle, your witty poem shouldn't be received as so terribly shocking. Moreover, your motive in de-gnosticizing the mind/body split so prevalent in popular Christian theology is a good and important one. Don't press it too far, however. As you probably know, it was among early Christian gnostics that sexual dimensions of Jesus' message and ministry were imaginatively explored (especially, apparently, in their sacraments, viz. the "bridal chamber"). And it was also the gnostics who promoted non-gendered biases in interpreting the Jesus tradition (as in the Coptic-Gnostic "Gospel of Mary"). I applaud your courage, especially in the current environment of religious intolerance, of reminding us that Jesus was as flesh and blood as any of us.

Hey there! Thanks for your comments on the poem. You know, I debated about the use of "Prince of Piece" and do think that it may be over the top. I do want you to know, however, that the goal of the poem is more to get people to think less Gnostically about the division of body and spirit. Some of that I hoped to accomplish through shock value but I definitely didn't want the poem to be a puerile and juvenile thing.

Handicapped people, the dead and dying, and this....Still, would like to read other poems with this same type of biting wit!!

I read your bio about a "mix of sensuality and spirituality." I suppose a poem such as this could be intriguing. But the way you wrote it, I can't get past the offensiveness to clearly see the poetry. Of course, that is my personal problem with the content. "Prince of Piece" is a rather juvenile phrase. I think that's one of the reasons why I can't see this as anything but shock value poetry.