Russell Brand

Right.

I mean, I think about that quite a lot.

Now, like I'm with a René Girard stuff.

I love how he's handled that he exposes the untruth at the center of all myth that usually centers around the sacrifice of a scapegoat.

And believe me, I'm starting to identify with that role.

But like our Lord, the perfect sacrifice inverts it, reveals it, unfolds it.

It's the true myth.

we can all see that you can't have music unless there's meaning you can't have math unless there's meaning you can't have geometry unless there's meaning but we I've not heard anyone else say but I know it won't be original that you know meaning itself meaning itself the person that comes and tells all these stories that gives us parables oh it's a bit like and really last time I was reading Mark I was like what I really sensed in our Lord was that he was continually saying to the disciples oh man how do I put this to you you're such idiots it's a bit like

Oh, a mustard seed.

It's a bit like he's using the appropriate parables and image systems for that time.

Where I'm buttressing and where I really would like to, the benefit of your experience and your wisdom, is I think sometimes that this hermeneutic is geographically localized by definition.

Some say Mesopotamia, some say some of the texts, maybe Job or whatever, could have existed in a culture that predates even these ancient scriptures.

And I sometimes think about

This is still a bit hippy-dippy Christ consciousness that I know the down-down Christians won't enjoy.

But what's more likely that this is the only text in which the creator of all reality was made relevant, revealed himself, and showed us his splendor?

That this is the only one, or that other mythologies geographically dislocated may, like the woman, touch the hem of his garment.

And that when you hear these stories, how would we definitively and absolutely know, given the limitations, I mean, the scriptural, the scribe limitations of this came out of that territory, that when somewhere in North India, they're talking about there was the apparition of this figurehead god man, that they're not...

particularly when we're talking about atemporality and outside of time, and do you think it matters?

I'm not talking false idols here.

I'm saying the expressions of, I mean, the story's not over.