Jesus was not a black woman, nor was he a poor young man shot, which does not make Jesus less sensitive to the cause of those who suffer and are oppressed at the same time in large urban centers, which simply does not make the image of God invisible compatible with the images selected by the Mangueira samba school to parade in Sapuca.
And will I not go into the merit of discussing wither the compatibility or not of Christ’s persecution through the Roman Empire with daily persecutions on the streets of our cities, another topic in the school plot. There are those who argue that similar Today there are imperial structures, anachronistic or not, the intention was to select figures of contemporary victims and strike them with the suffering of Christ.
- It is worth saying that.
- In essence.
- The question is neither the instrument nor the circumstances.
- With Jesus.
- Two other individuals were crucified (i.
- E.
- The same instrument and the same circumstances).
- But no one floats them.
- Basically.
- The whole thing is about the picture.
- And that’s what I’m going to talk about here shortly.
There is a big problem when you think that the image of Jesus as a Hebrew man can be changed at random. Even the most sensitive case and the most urgent vulnerability of a society does not have the power to fully reconcile with the image of the crucified servant suffering. This is because when you change the image of the male Jesus to a woman, a trans person or whoever you are, you change the whole Christian religion.
This statement seems hyperbolic, but CSLewis came to this conclusion in an important article against the ordination of women by the Anglican Church in the 1950s. At the heart of their argument is that, contrary to what they say, gender, sexuality, historical context are very important to Christianity. They are not for those who, like samba school, exchange men for women as if moving geometric shapes. But for us Christians, these differences are inevitable.
To understand this, Lewis proposes a very simple exercise: he only responds if we can pray there. Our mother in heaven? As much as the “Our Father,” if the second Person of the Trinity could well be called Daughter or Son, if mystical marriage could be reversed?That the Church was the husband and that Christ was the wife, or even two wives. Of course, although such exchanges take place on a daily basis, they significantly alter the entire structure of the biblical narrative.
In this case, the question of whether we can change these frameworks without disturbing the entire structure of the Christian religion revealed in the scriptures receives an answer, of course, negative. Christians take into account human sexuality, each other’s concrete position in The History and Violence of Empires, but we also know that a child who has learned to pray for a heavenly mother would have a radically different religious life than a Christian child, precisely because gender matters.
In this case, in the face of all this, we are not faithful to the spirit of the Christian religion when we make Christ’s sacrifice compatible with the death of anyone in our current societies. We’re changing the whole religion. We are faithful to the spirit of our time.
Rejecting this attempt at samba school compatibility does not make us insensitive to the alarming data of violence in Brazil, but it shows that on the truly Christian political agenda there are other expectations, other trusts and other ways of loving. Correct a bad man or husband by telling him to become a woman. There is no cure for deconstruction.