Throbert McGee

Well, the other day I was poking around on <a href="http://www.newadvent.org" target="_blank">www.newadvent.org</a> in order to find supporting links for my Blog rebuttal of Michelangelo Signorile's barfily victimized screed about how much the Pope hates gay people, which appeared some weeks ago at <a href="http://www.nypress.com" target="_blank">www.nypress.com</a>. (Plus, I was trying to rework that essay into something that I could submit to the NY Press for consideration as a paid piece, but they've already shot me down. Oh, well.)

Anyhew, what should I stumble across but the online texts of two very apocryphal Gospels of Jesus' infancy. And as I read through them, all of a sudden I had one of them mind-blowing epiphany things. I mean, I'm damn sure many others before me have noticed the Bildungsroman quality of JC's life story once you fill in those years that aren't covered in the canonical Gospels, but it's new to me, and I figured it out all by myself! (And I totally wish I had Arthur C. Clarke's email address...)

Anyway, check it out, and let me know what y'all think:

<a href="http://throbert.blogspot.com" target="_blank">The Far-Out Adventures of Li'l Jesus!</a>

P.S. Oh, yeah, the open letter to Signorile is on the main page too. Enjoy!

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Marduk

sounds like "Jesus the Menace".

lpetrich

I'm working on a hero-myth page; I'm comparing Jesus Christ, Moses, Romulus, Hercules, Krishna, the Buddha, JFK, and Charles Darwin. I'll add others if anyone's interested.

I'm finding that I am having to revise one of Lord Raglan's criteria, that we learn nothing about a hero's childhood after learning about his conception and infancy. I'm including stories of unusual precocity as one of the signs of a great hero.

Yes, I agree, marduck -- what a tyke JC supposedly had been.