Reply #2: About 13 years ago, I had my kids in Catholic school here in town [View All]

[Mari333]

I had been out of the Catholic church for quite a while, but I was approached by the people at the church to write a passion play for the students, and have them represent it (the teenage students)
I said okay, and proceeded to write the play, but I wrote the play as a metaphor..not as literal fact..
As the students enacted the play, I spoke on the microphone, and laid out the concept of the metaphor as the passion of jesus being an INNER JOURNEY that each person must travail to come to some inner peace within themselves..
That the dying on the cross that Jesus did was representative of the dying of our own egos, and the submission of ourselves to a greater Good within ourselves..and how this passion play represented that..
I.E., I was merely attempting to offer to the audience that they too were Christ, and could embrace that story in their own lives as they allowed themselves to tear away the lies and deceit they are taught, the control issues and fears they deal with daily, and submit themselves to an inner beauty within thats divine and lovely and in them all.. (ancient idea anyway...see: Erishkigal and the Descent of Innana in the Sumerian texts)
WELL! I was absolutely lambasted by the evangelical catholics at the church ! How dare I suggest we could all take that journey!
hah...a lot of people came up to me later and told me they loved it tho..
BTW I dont go there anymore, I prefer the woods now to sit in and meditate with my doggie. He makes more sense then most people I know when it comes to divinity.