Word: messiahs
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...would be difficult to deny the program's proselytizing intent. In its hardsell conclusion, the film argues that Passover is "a clear prophecy of a greater story, the story of redemption through Christ the Messiah, the Lamb of God, who lived and died and rose again for the redemption of all who believe." That reading is based on a long tradition of Christian exegeses of the Hebrew scripture, which sees prefigurings of Jesus' mission in many Old Testament passages and practices. Jewish criticism, accordingly, was not so much aimed at the fact of proselytizing* as at the method...
What drugs symbolized for a while was a feeling of oneness, unity within the universe. Jerry says, "I am God . . . no really, I am the Messiah." That entire hippie ethic of community of spirit and loving everyone just died somewhere along the track of hepatitis, busts and commercialism. In retrospect, one is struck only by the devastating naivete involved in that movement. While it was drugs that brought that feeling of community, ironically, they also brought an awareness of how isolated people really are Jerry's mother says, "Scientists tells us we are not alone in the universe. That...
...Hanoi to bring back three U.S. prisoners, he had been caught in an air raid and found himself hurtling into a shelter with a Vietnamese baby in his arms. The experience became both a scar and a poem: "In my arms, Father, in a moment's grace The Messiah of all my tears I bore, reborn, a Hiroshima child from hell...
...worries and faults, who had to deal with the same problems all men have to deal with, and who offered his flesh-and-blood body up to crucifixion in the face of very human doubts; the Superstar analogy is just a more or less appropriate metaphor for Messiah. In one of Superstar's climactic songs, "Gethsemane," Jesus sings a doubting, defiant prayer to God (who has an offstage role...
...public lecture, Harry Kenmore, New York chiropractor and member of Baba's inner circle, said Baba told him that each time a Messiah came to Earth, he manifested one weakness. For instance, Jesus on the cross should not have asked God why He had forsaken him. (Apparently, Baba had not the view of some philologists that, in the mistranslation, "glorify" became "forsake.") Kenmore said he thought that Baba's weakness lay in his failure to break his silence as promised...