The MeToo movement has been supported by Hollywood actors, who wore black to support it, and attacked by feminist Germaine Greer (pictured) as 'ballyhoo'
An unlikely figurehead has been co-opted into Hollywood's Me Too movement - Jesus Christ.
An academic from the University of Sheffield has claimed the son of God was also a victim of sexual abuse, when he was stripped to be crucified.
Writing in advance of Easter, on website The Conversation, Dr Katie Edwards says this was a 'powerful display of humiliation and gender-based violence.'
In an article headlined with the words '#Him Too', written with an academic from the University of Otago in New Zealand, she wrote: 'This is not just a matter of correcting the historical record.
'If Jesus is named as a victim of sexual abuse it could make a huge difference to how the churches engage with movements like #MeToo, and how they promote change in wider society.'
The MeToo movement has been supported by Hollywood actors, who wore black to support it, and attacked by feminist Germaine Greer as 'ballyhoo'.But the article is thought to be the first to link it with the crucifixion.
Dr Katie Edwards (pictured) has claimed the son of God was also a victim of sexual abuse, when he was stripped to be crucified.
Dr Stuart Waiton, a criminology expert and senior lecturer in the sociology department of the University of Abertay, said: 'Using Jesus Christ in this way is farcical.
'There is a tendency in society to discuss almost everything as a form of abuse, to try and attach the label of victim and victimhood to more and more things and people.
'But this is ahistorical and odd.
'Our understanding of Jesus suggests he would see hardship as something to rise above and move on from, rather than as something that you come to define yourself through.'
Dr Edwards is director of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies and has called for more attention to be paid to the stripping of Jesus, which she claims receives 'little attention and minimal discussion.'
Writing with Professor David Tombs, Howard Paterson chair of theology and public issues at the University of Otago, she said the MeToo movement had exposed a common tendency to deny and dismiss sexual assault, harassment and abuse.
The article continues: 'With this in mind, during this present Lenten period, it seems especially appropriate to recall the stripping of Jesus and to name it for what it was intended to be: a powerful display of humiliation and gender-based violence, which should be acknowledged as an act of sexual violence and abuse.'
Stripping was a deliberate action used by the Romans to humiliate and degrade those they wished to punish, although historical depictions of the crucifixion tend to show Jesus wearing a loincloth.
The article says scenes of the crucifixion contrast the power and control of the Romans against the forced submission of their prisoner, while hinting at further sexual violence in store.
The authors conclude: 'The sexual abuse of Jesus is a missing part of Passion and Easter story retellings. It's appropriate to recognise Jesus as a victim of sexual violence to address the continuing stigmafor those who've experienced sexual abuse, especially men.'
Christian Woman (lyrics):
a) Body Of Christ (Corpus Christi)
b) To Love God
c) Jesus Christ Looks Like Me
A cross upon her bedroom wall
From grace she will fall
An image burning in her mind
And between her thighs
A dying God-man full of pain
When will you cum again ?
Before him beg to serve or please
On your back or knees
There's no forgiveness for her sins
Prefers punishment ?
Would you suffer eternally
Or internally ?
For her lust
She'll burn in hell
Her soulโฆ
above lyrics by Type O Negative, song entitled: "Christian Woman"
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ned's note:
We live in a very sickass society, filled with mockery (phoney imagery, mind control) and injustice of all types. Everything is hoopla.
One thing about mockery (mind control): It does not take kindly to being itself mocked and mind controlled. It does not like the true image. This was true in the Roman times and it is even more true, if that is possible, today. The deceitful wish to deceive (and mock) the truthful and to maintain this, at all costs.
The deceitful wish to preserve (maintain) and extend (make greater still), injustice.
One thing about injustice: It does not like justice. We are awash in injustice, things are getting worse here on earth, not better. Every day there is more deceit and more injustice. A lot of hoopla.
The privileged (those who employ 'mammon' aka deceit and mockery/mind control to enjoy celebrity status, special status, elite wealthy status) wish to remain privileged (they wish to remain celebrity, special and elite/wealthy).
So there is no end to this desire, this hoopla. This desire of the criminal (ie., faked, illicit) mammon-identified mind. Everything (almost) today is a statement of this desire. There is no end to it. Hoopla.
Except by means of The Tao.
The Tao.
"Of all the meditations, the meditation on death is most significant." Meditate!
MEDITATE!
And one more thing: "Counterfeit (what we are living with today) exists ONLY because there is true gold."
Find it, find the true, forsake the false, leave the false behind. Get rid of it.
That is the only real hope any of us have.
Thanks.
Have a nice day.
ned,
OUT