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Jason Pitzl-Waters on Jul 30th 2005 at 4:36 pm Neopaganism

Because It Didn’t Exist?

The Arizona Republic profiles a new film by Paul Perry that depicts the early years of the life of Jesus using Coptic sources and “oral traditions” of the days after the family of Jesus fled from King Herod’s wrath.

During the Cairo premiere, Perry visited with Egyptian first lady Suzanne Mubarak, members of the Egyptian Cabinet and other dignitaries. Perry said the first lady, like many people who view the film, was taken aback by the mystery of the remote sites where a young Jesus reportedly raised the dead and destroyed pagan temples. “She kept turning back to me, saying, ‘This is an Egypt I’ve never seen before,’ ” Perry said.

Indeed this isn’t an Egypt we have seen before because it most likely didn’t exist except in the oral traditions and writings of Coptic Christians. Hard to picture the Prince of Peace going around as a child blowing up Pagan temples.

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2 responses so far

  • branruadh

    Fascinating what people will assign to someone when they have no real information, isn’t it? More than half of St. Patrick’s reputation is from people who took advantage of his name after he died and the modern pagans who have no idea how to interpret their propaganda. Jesus obviously would suffer the same fate.

  • Lisa

    But Jesus wasn’t a Prince of Peace. He said it himself, he was a revolutionary against the Roman Empire. He hung out with terrorists and political assassins and quite possibly was a terrorist himself… I could definately see Jesus blowing up any vestiges of Roman occupancy in Egypt… Generic paganism et. al? Maybe not.