Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 11
The Sonship of Jesus Christ 11 was attached to his character some three hundred years later, to allow his legend to live on—this will be discussed later. The nature of the nuptial relationship between God the Father and Mary as is an issue which one loathes to discuss barefaced. Yet in an attempt to understand the intermediary role of Mary as between the ‘Father’ and the ‘Son’ this is an unavoidable evil. Perhaps it is the same question which bothered Nietzsche so much that he gave vent to his pent up dissatisfaction, at last, in the following words: Not long after Zarathustra had freed himself from the sorcerer, however, he again saw someone sitting beside the path he was going: a tall, dark man with a pale, haggard face; this man greatly vexed him. ‘Alas,’ he said to his heart, ‘there sits disguised affliction, he seems to be of the priestly sort: what do they want in my kingdom?’. . . ‘Whoever you may be, traveller’, he said, ‘help one who has gone astray, an old man who may come to harm here!’ The world here is strange and remote to me, and I hear the howling of wild animals; and he who could have afforded me protection is himself no more. I was seeking the last pious man, a saint and hermit who, alone in the forest, had as yet heard nothing of what all the world knows today. ‘What does all the world know today?’ asked Zarathustra. ‘This perhaps, that the old God in whom all the world once believed no longer lives?’