re: #202 Pie-onist Overlord

I read the Gospels, it’s just some Jewish guy telling people to be kind to the poor & homeless & sick. Just like it says in the Scripture that he was taught.

I haven’t read the Book of Revelation but I have heard that it is some freaky shit.

D.H. Lawrence argued that the Book of Revelation is actually a work of pagan literature that had been overwritten and revised to make it fit with a Christian eschatological perspective. The little book he wrote on the subject, Apocalypse, is unfortunately somewhat rambling, but it covers the idea pretty well if you can read through Lawrence’s tirades and get to the heart of the matter. He notes that one can still find traces of the Book of Revelation’s pagan origins in some of its verses, notably Revelation 12:1…

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

which Lawrence argues most likely has its origin in literature from one of the pagan mystery cults so ubiquitous in the ancient Mediterranean world.

That particular verse is, to me at least, absolutely redolent with pagan imagery from Mid to Late Antiquity.