A new mystery ...

Roy C. Lackey · 04 Dec 2008, 07:47 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 01:47:17 -0600
Subject: (urth) A new mystery ...
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Dan'l quoted and wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
>
> > Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> >
> >> In the Christian mythos, Jesus *died* to save the world, so to speak,
even
> >> if that world was in the everafter. He was unique, in the Christian
> >> mythos,
> >> in that he was resurrected.
> >>
> >
> > What about Lazarus, et al?
> >
>
> And also Talitha (in the Book of Acts); and also the boy Elijah
> raises. Christ is unique in that nobody resurrects him, he does
> it himself.

That's the essence of what I meant, that in Christian thought the birth,
life, death and resurrection of a god who was God was a one-time event, a
Big Deal, unlike the many "pagan" dying-and-resurrected gods before him. And
after the resurrection Jesus went away and has stayed away. Severian came
back to Ushas in the flesh and lived it up as a petty god. A petty god
because, after bringing the New Sun, most of his Conciliator power was gone.
He became useless superannuation at best, a false god in a new pantheon at
worst, as the Sleeper.

-Roy

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