A good friend of mine recently put together an interesting critique against the current instantiation of "Christians" and called them the ZOMBIE CHURCH.
From Wikipedia:
A zombie or zombi is a reanimated corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the dead being raised as workers by a powerful sorcerer. In modern horror fiction, zombies are generally undead corpses brought back from the dead by supernatural or scientific means, and are rarely under any one's direct control. They typically have very limited intelligence, and hunger for the flesh of the living.
The Church is the "Body of Christ" right?
Is resurrection ALWAYS a good thing? I mean, if it were, why are people so afraid of Zombie's?
Two things that jump out at me from this good piece of zombie scholarship are:
- A zombie is re-animated corpse
- A zombie has hunger for the flesh of the living
Is the current prevailing Christianity the "living spirit" re-animating that which is dead?
Is the current prevailing Christianity the spirit of the dead, hungering for the "flesh of the living"?
The Church is constantly being spoken of as a body. And it goes without saying that the resurrection is a huge part of the Christian church's narrative. But what if parts of the "body" should not have been resurrected? Is it possible that there are portions of the church that exist in a zombie like state? Seeking after flesh??
Questions I ask myself:
- Why is Christianity so fixated on blood?
- Why is the Body the featured metaphor?
- Is there any validity to the critique that Christianity is life taking, instead of life giving?...
What is the difference between being a Zombie and Re-birth?
1 comment:
When I was in my early teens I had to write a paper on the significance of blood... it's all about life, as you'd expect.
To me 'religion' of any kind is life taking. By that I mean, man's effort to find God. What's life giving to me is what Christ has done in his death and resurrection that makes it possible to have a real relationship with God. It's a pity 'the church' gets stuck turning a free, life giving gift into such an effort.
Jo :)
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