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Quote: Jesus...a blank screen on which to project personal hopes, dreams and struggles.

Yep, so many seem to view Jesus this way.

The flip side of this is, we can only be sure we're encountered the real Jesus when he begins to challenge us in ways we don't expect, in ways that make us uncomfortable, in ways that stretch and transform us.

Syncretism is certainly something that we have to guard against but I find that the distortion of Jesus goes beyond syncretism. Within Christianity - without the influence or infiltration of other religions - I find that we try to make Jesus be a person that hates those we hate and loves those we love and fights for our causes and is on our side instead of being concerned as to whether we are lining up with who he already is, was and will always be.

I have my contribution to the synchroblog up now at http://gracerules.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/does-interfaith-dialogue-lead-to-syncretism/

I think everyone does this to Jesus, even people who try to be faithful to the gospel accounts, because there are so many different ways to interpret the stories - both the stories that Jesus tells and the stories about him. Your recipe made me laugh though! Maybe for balance you should come up with a recipe for a fundamentalist version of Jesus?

1 slightly sour Jesus
6oz Old Testament prophet
1 Gospel of Matthew
A handful of chopped logic
8 oz literal interpretation

Mix together and bake in the desert sun for 40 days.

Liz, I've now linked you.

Yewtree, is that spicy enough? You may need to add some Sodom And Gomorrah to bring out those Old Testament flavours.

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