![]() ![]() ![]() Christ represents the path that Christianity would come follow - one of billionaire evangelists, manipulative missionaries, and the Spanish inquisition – as well as, less intentionally, the Crusades, witch hunts, and pedophilic priests. He’s compassionate, non-judgmental, simple (in the sense of eschewing wealth and glory,) and is a great storyteller. Jesus represents the traveling preacher that most people find appealing and admirable. The reason for complicating the story with twins is to be able to split apart two confounding entities. First, in this book, Mary gave birth to twins: one healthy, disciplined, and charismatic and one stunted, bookish, and with grand designs Second, the book tells the story in a way which requires no miracles or magic. Pullman tells the story of Jesus’s life from manger birth to the birth of the religion that flowed from Jesus’s crucifixion, with two major deviations from the gospel accounts. ![]()
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