As an allegory of God’s love for man
Or as an image of the Self,
The Christian Myth is profoundly true.
But, if believed to be a record
Of Divine vicarious atonement,
It is a symbol of self-deceit.
Jerusalem
9 February 1996
As an allegory of God’s love for man
Or as an image of the Self,
The Christian Myth is profoundly true.
But, if believed to be a record
Of Divine vicarious atonement,
It is a symbol of self-deceit.
Jerusalem
9 February 1996
The truth’s now clear, and duly shocks me:Israel’s America’s sacred