Sunday, August 8, 2010
How God Lost His Balls
After getting a lot of feedback and interest from my research into the subject of castration rituals among the earliest Christians I have decided to make this the subject of my next book. I have tentatively decided on a title too - 'How God Lost His Balls.' I even have the cover design sort of thought out in my head. A bare line drawing of an open pair of legs and underneath two apples and a banana lying on the ground in a suggestive manner.
While the title seems sort of jarring and crass there is a double entendre of sorts. There are two meanings to 'losing one's balls' or 'mojo.' I hope to argue that Christianity eventually just became a religion of conformity, aping middle class values. That becoming successful made it lose what made it interesting and perhaps - what made it a fulfillment of Jewish messianic and Platonic contemplative speculation.
It might be hard for some to empathize with those who ritually castrated themselves to be near to God but I think I can pull it off. I am married after all ...
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