The Birth of a New Christ
My life has often taken
me to strange places – not just literally, often merely figuratively. Dark,
despoiled locales haunted by miscreants and lost souls alike, where hatred is
your only brother, a blanket to keep you warm against the chill of a torturous
world.
I never intended to
write books involving God. My main aim in penning my first tome was to exorcize
some of my inner demons, but without intending to, I somehow stumbled onto a
deity I had long forgotten.
Is He real?
Ha! Good luck answering
that one. I’m not going to fall into that trap, nor am I likely to be found
preaching the word of the gospel – far from it. I find the thought of quoting
from a two-millennia-old textbook ridiculous. It has some good stories, sure. They’re
meant to teach the reader lessons about life, not be used as condemnations
against those you hate.
And then I find myself
preaching….
THE DARK PATH touched
on certain religious aspects, and it got me thinking. Images trickled through
my late-night ponderings – usually as I lay in bed trying to sleep – and I
found myself wondering what might happen were Christ actually reborn. Would he
shoot from the womb spouting philosophy? Or would he be birthed a man, a mere hominid,
one with a task of colossal importance awaiting him, and he had to decipher all
answers on his own?
I took this concept and
played with it – tearing at the edges as I do in order to dirty things up a
little.
What if this man was
raised in the wrong environment? What if those supposed to nourish and support
him instead tortured and bullied him, screaming script from the Bible at him as
they whipped his fragile mortal frame? Would he still turn out the epitome of
God, or would he morph into something a bit darker?
And that’s how CORPUS
CHRISTI began….
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