Christianity’s Punchline (as told by a Slovenian)
“As for Christianity, we must not forget the moments of carnivalesque irony in Christ’s parables and riddles. Even the crucifixion contains its own mocking, blasphemous spectacle in the donkey-riding king who is Christ, his crown a matter of thorns. Christianity disrupts the pagan notion of the slapstick reversal of the proper relations of authority in which, for a limited time, a fool is celebrated as a king. In Christianity, the “true” king is revealed to be his own blasphemy, a Lord of Misrule, a fool. This is why when, in December 2006, a group of Polish conservative-nationalist members of parliament seriously proposed to proclaim Jesus Christ king of Poland, they not only confused religious and political orders; their proposal was also deeply pagan, anti-Christian, missing as it did the joke of Christianity itself.”
Papa bear, throwing down some Orthodoxy.
That must be everyone’s favorite Slovenian, the one and only Zizek.