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| 17 June 2018 |
Watching this clip has left me
asking the question as to who might receive the accolade for being the most
popular person among that small-minded coterie.
I had been stupidly wrong about
Andrew Marr, who I thought was such a jolly good fellow! But it isn’t the first
time that the BBC has mocked Christians, and I am sure there is more to come! I
should have known better!
Childish naivety, of course, is
better than old-age cynicism, if I may excuse myself for being trapped in the wrong body with apologies to Peter Pan! We all know that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but Marr just wants
to be, well, plain Marr! Thankfully, his Feuerbachian god is not my God!
Comparing Wilde to a “gay Christ”
(so A Marr, though hardly original!) or viewing him as “better than Christ” (so Rupert Everett) is sheer
fantasy (Christ was not a demi-god and the New Testament portrays Him as sinless),
and most certainly a touch ridiculous, to put it mildly! At least Wilde was not
linked to Muhammad, or it might have … okay, I’ll stop right here! And never
mind the Beatles – who certainly were more popular than, well, Oscar, or Andrew
Marr, or Everett rolled together into one! Not sure where that leaves this humble
writer!
Oscar Wilde was wild by nature,
but I do not for a moment think that he would have elevated himself above the
Saviour of the world, judging by his (however misguided) admiration as vividly depicted
in his ‘De Profundis.’ He was a fallen creature, and he fell mightily – very sadly!
I care little for all the pretentiously
sophisticated mockery one sees on the BBC these days. They tell me that little
things amuse little minds. All the scorning has helped in strengthening my
faith in the most hated man that has ever lived. And we are not talking about
uncle Oscar now! We are talking about the importance of being earnest!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it well,
if I may be allowed to quote him out of context: “Those of us who have learned to
discern the power and nature of the world and of our own particular evil in the
cross of Jesus Christ and who, in that same cross, deeply trust in the unending
love of God for this world will surely not be so very surprised and shocked by
certain expressions of this worldliness.”
The whole sorry saga has left me neither shocked nor surprised, but rather somewhat bored! Now why did I have to watch that clip
in the first place?! Well, my BP is up again! I am
alive! At least it’s out of my system! I am sure that Oscar would have liked
some straight talking!
My vision of Christ
has not been marred, and I have not gone wild.
Perhaps it’s time to read and
study the Gospel accounts again, just as Oscar Wilde did in his Oxford days! All
of us may be in for a nasty shock or a pleasant surprise! Anyone who wishes to
be compared to Jesus needs their head sorted and remember that he is ‘wholly other’, ‘the man for
others.’ He is no Oscar Wilde, but superior in every respect! Dangerously so!
