Just when you thought the holidays were over…
The Greeks have a feastday for everything. Yesterday was the Orthodox feastday of Saint Basil the Great, but I just remembered that it was also the official Feast of the Circumcision of Jesus Christ. I’m serious. Don’t ask me how I know this shit… It makes sense though; in the Jewish tradition, circumcision occurs on a baby boy’s eighth day, which in Jesus’ case would be January 1, if you start counting from December 25. Only the Greeks could have a holiday celebrating Jesus’ johnson.
The image is a detail taken from the mosaic in the dome of the fifth-century C.E. Arian Baptistry in Ravenna, Italy. In the whole of Christian art, there aren't many works in which (the adult) Jesus appears nude.
posted by Sandouri Dean Bey at 5:00 PM
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The Roman Catholics, the tradition I was raised in, have this holiday also and count it as a Holy Day of Obligation, meaning you have to go to mass that day or be in sin. To me, this made little sense as the Catholic Church did everything it possibly could to suppress the fact that Jesus was Jewish.
Best wishes to you for a happy, healthy 2006.
Once its done, you eat and kibitz about how cute the baby is!
Though to be clear, we DON'T eat the foreskin! I wish I didn't have to say it, but the idea is definitely out there. Anti-Semitic mythology gets weird.
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