“The Reactionary Utopian,”
by Joe Sobran
March 20, 2008
The Man They Still Hate
The hatred of Christ usually pretends to be directed at side targets: St. Paul, the “institutional” Church, or, more vaguely, “organized religion” (as if religion would be all right if only it were a solitary activity). The cliché of the Christ-haters is that he was a “great moral teacher” who “never claimed divinity,” but that his “simple message of love” was “corrupted” by his followers. But why would anyone want a man crucified for preaching an innocuous message of benevolence?
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