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Modus Operandi
The Church Fathers’ Screenplay
Morphing the Imagery
the subject | the morphing | |
a) | Christian(ized) icons: | morph ‘life transition’ > the hyper-celestial |
b) | Jewish personages: | morph the mundane > the demonic / diabolical |
c) | core Jewish icons | morph the heroic > chequered |
d) | Jewish leadership | morph the establishment > criminal element |
e) | bullet-proof Jewish icons | morph the icon > invisibility |
f) | God of Israel: | morph the celestial > the authoritarian |
examples:
a) the birth, death and after-death of Jesus
- are hyper- celestial-ized ( my term )
b) the random Jew
- is demonized.
c) Abraham and Moses
- are tangentially dissed.
d) the Sanhedrin
- is criminalized.
e) Judah the Maccabee
- is invisible-ized ( my term )
f) the God of Israel is at-a-minimum
- implied to be authoritarian and uncaring.
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All of the motifs just-noted above
remain extant in the Christian Bible
and in the ‘Christian narrative’
employed/disseminated world-wide to this very day
- Nostre Aetate notwithstanding -
in many, many tens of thousands
of churches and Christian schools globally
- every Sunday and weekday