Dear George,
The primary function of the Christian church is the repeated crucifixion of Jesus through an ongoing process of reinvention. Each age creates its own Jesus who serves whatever delusion is the motivating force of that age.
In the nineteenth century, Jesus marched at the head of an army of Christian soldiers marching as to war, spreading Christian oppression and exploitation to the far corners of the earth. This Jesus became an avatar of imperialism. In the 1920s, Jesus was portrayed as the world’s greatest salesman who sold Christianity to the world. This Jesus suited the business a-go-go spirit of the twenties. At the turn of the twenty-first century, an idolatrous worship of the Bible has forced Him into the background. This has meshed well with the Old Testament nastiness that has spread across the land.
The reason for these ongoing crucifixions is quite simple. The living Christ is the ultimate deconstructionist, and this scares the shit out of those in authority. Authority deconstructed is authority gelded.
The living Christ demands nothing less than the crucifixion of the ego. A deconstructed ego quickly sees that the State’s ability to tax and kill rests on a pseudo-theological foundation of sand. This insight is the source of democratic unrest.
Jesus the soldier and Jesus the salesman were socially beneficial because they propped up the bullshit that is the basis of the State. What the church must continually crucify is the postmodern Jesus who refuses to conform to the things of this world. In this way, Jesus is reduced to a PR hack for the State.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
9:09:35 PM 
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