Some people think the attraction of Christianity is life everlasting, but the only bit that I can easily believe in is the death. I believe that Jesus died, and that no one who mattered gave his death a second thought. The whole of history is supposed to hinge on the wretched and deluded outcast tortured to death in a way so horrible that respectable Romans were not supposed even to mention it. As Francis Spufford writes, towards the end of Unapologetic:
Read Full Article »"Jesus is not an Oedipus or a Prince Hamlet, someone falling from greatness. His death belongs beside the early cutting short of millions of lives of people too poor or too unimportant ever to have been recorded in the misleading story we call history: people only mourned by others as brief as themselves, and therefore gone from human memory as if they had never been."
