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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 12:12 PM
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New Controversial Novel Presents Queer Christ
Edited on Sat Jan-27-07 12:12 PM by cynatnite
Recently released Jesus in Love is said to be the first novel ever published about a queer Christ.

The controversial novel, published by AndroGyne Press, a new queer studies press in Berkeley, Calif., was written by a lesbian Christian who said she met the queer Christ in the depths of her own heart.

Kittredge Cherry turned to Christianity during a journalism scholarship to Japan. There, she "felt God reach out to me, just as I am, lesbian and all."

"As soon as I knew there was a God, I knew that God accepted homosexuality because otherwise God would not have bothered with me," Cherry says in her new book.

In the fiction, Cherry addresses Christ's sexuality and describes how Jesus reveals his relationships with John the beloved disciple, Mary Magdalene and the multi-gendered Holy Spirit.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070122/25334_New_Controversial_Novel_Presents_Queer_Christ.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Love-Kittredge-Cherry/dp/1933993189/sr=8-1/qid=1169917753/ref=sr_1_1/104-0575696-7972744?ie=UTF8&s=books

Posted by a freak at rapture ready.

on edit: I think I might buy it. Sounds very compelling.
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 12:14 PM
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1. Now this should get interesting
:popcorn: time

Add to that



:) from CNN....
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 12:17 PM
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3. There is nothing wrong with that face except the dumb look.
I'd like to see that face with some kind of expression.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 12:25 PM
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5. Yeah, it's a passport photo
but the artist has made it possible to read kindness into those eyes, and the guy in the NT was kind much more than he was not.
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 01:48 PM
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9. I am not sure there were passports in Jesus's time
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 07:38 PM
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13. Didn't that guy walk into a Pet Market in Iraq
a few days ago with a Boom Boom package? :)

Funny, all the christians think Jesus was a WHITE Hippy guy, who they'd HATE if they met in person, and I like to tell them that Jesus Christ probably looked a LOT like Osama Bin Laden, sort of blows their little white minds :)
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 07:42 PM
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15. Would Jesus be cross-eyed?
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bluerum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 12:17 PM
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2. I certainly don't think that this idea is unique. But it sounds like an
interesting read.

Jesus preached love for all LIVING THINGS - not just the white fundamentalist heterosexuals living in suburbia.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 12:23 PM
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4. was Jesus gay? . . . just look at the evidence . . .
first of all, he was single -- never married . . .

second, he wore a dress and hung out with twelve guys . . .

and third, he was always talkin' about "loving your brother" . . .

I mean, what more do we need? . . .
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 12:38 PM
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6. I'm convinced
:)
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 12:52 PM
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7. He wasn't gay - he was Irish
A thirty something bachelor who hung out with his buddies

He thought his mother was a virgin

She thought he was God
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PinkTiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 01:06 PM
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8. LOL nt
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 07:23 PM
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11. Now that, is fucking funny...
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :toast:
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 07:26 PM
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12. Actually no, He was Jewish:
1. He lived at home until the age of 33
2. He went into his father's business
3. He was sure his mother was a virgin, and his mother was sure he was God


or then again, He might have been a Californian:

1. He never cut his hair
2. He walked around barefoot
3. He invented a new religion
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 07:22 PM
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10. kick n/t
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-27-07 07:40 PM
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14. My cousin sent this to me the other day
There were three good arguments that Jesus was Black:
1. He called everyone brother.
2. He liked Gospel.
3. He couldn't get a fair trial.

But then there were three equally good arguments that Jesus was Jewish:
1. He went into His Father's business.
2. He lived at home until he was 33.
3. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his Mother was sure He was
God.

But then there were three equally good arguments that Jesus was Italian:
1. He talked with His hands.
2. He had wine with His meals.
3. He used olive oil.

But then there were three equally good arguments that Jesus was a
Californian:
1. He never cut His hair.
2. He walked around barefoot all the time.
3. He started a new religion.

But then there were three equally good arguments the Jesus was Irish:
1. He never got married.
2. He was always telling stories.
3. He loved green pastures.

But the most compelling evidence of all - three proofs that Jesus was a
woman:
1. He fed a crowd at a moment's notice when there was no food.
2. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just
didn't get it.
3. And even when He was dead, He had to get up because there was work
to do.
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