Talk:Flagellation/@comment-25941663-20150315110916/@comment-4665292-20150315132612

According to Christians, Jesus kind of is a deity. He's the son of God, and at the same time is considered to be God because God is absolute; yet, God as a father, and as a son (Jesus) and as an abstract concept (holy spirit) make up a trinity. I guess it is pretty confusing if you (don't) think about it (too) much. Also, that confusing setentence in the story, if I understood it correctly, is intentionally ambiguous, leaving it up to the reader to decide whether the man in question is a deity or if he's only one of many people that the deity that he sees "greets". I like that kind of quirky ambiguity, but it could've been pulled off better.

The mention of the crusades makes me even more certain that he is Jesus, because Jesus obviously wouldn't have wanted the crusades to happen (you know, he generally advocated peace, etc.) and the whole ending, to me at least, implies that Jesus wasn't the last prophet (a belief that Muslims, Mormons, some Christians, etc. have; most Christians consider him to have been the last, while Muslims consider Muhammed to have been the last, and Mormons think there are living prophets still to this day).

On the other hand, it does seem to suggest that he was the first. No one, as far as I know, believes that (he was preceded by Abraham, Moses, etc.) so that's a bit odd, although it could just be bad wording that causes that impression.

Overall, I actually enjoyed reading this for some reason, even though it really doesn't have anything original to it and could've been much longer with plenty more emotions and shit, and some words are repeated a bit much (glass...) and the "scream was not in pain" line is a bit ridiculous, since it makes it sound like people can't think positive when they're in pain. But, funnily enough, I learned something new from this pasta: Jesus really was whipped with a whip that had glass (or metal) attached to it. I hadn't known that, but did some quick googly googling and apparently he was.