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on the other hand, christianity is a syncretic institution.
it absorbed all kinds of curious stuff from the contexts it emerged from and which it was tied to. jesus is a type--the wandering holy man--there were other possibilities like appolonius of tyana...practices were drawn from gnostic sects--early christianity legitimated itself in part through the use of magic (see augustine's city of god--the main argument he makes as to why the romans should convert is that christianity has better magic--the outcomes were called miracles, the magicians saints...) so in itself the premise of the film is not surprising--but the attempt to reduce jesus to a function of just one source practice seems to me more difficult than seeing in jesus a composite.
i am kinda interested in this film, though.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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