Sunday, December 11, 2016

Hot for Jesus?

I read once that Tori Amos thought Jesus was hot when she would see him on the cross. When I first read that I balked at the thought of sexualizing God incarnate. I was torn in my need to be me, completely unfiltered, and this need to find salvation. Somehow when I was younger I thought I was damaged goods and only God would be able to correct this. I was attracted to men but knew this was wrong. Or at least wrong in the paradigm I was living in where women couldn't cut their hair and had to wear ugly blue jean skirts. Without makeup or any adornments other than their watches and wedding rings. The desexualization of the female form. The demonization of the gay man. Music like Tori Amos' helped kick start the free thinking that would lead me to where I am now. So when I see pics of Jesus on the Cross sometimes I think about what she said and wonder, Was Jesus hot?






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