158 - Paul Kingsnorth - Environmentalism, the Tower of Babel and the Disintegration of Culture
The Symbolic World
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The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
In the early centuries, people thought Christianity was so weird or disgusting. What sort of a God gets himself killed? You know, the gods are supposed to be heroes. But that's the, that turns the world on its head. And if everybody has that as the sacred image, that's where the cross fascinates me so much. That'sGod dying up there because we killed him, but he chose to do that because that's what we need to do as well. That's the whole story there that sacrifice defeats death. And that sacrifice shows us how to live. So what are you going to do with that?
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