The Covenant of Souls

The ancient peoples had no shame. The Ugaritic tablets celebrate the "lying together" of men. The Greek vase paintings show it openly. The Aramaic word for love means "to womb." The beloved disciple lay in Jesus's bosom. The young man in Gethsemane wore only a cloth over his genitals and fled naked when the soldiers came.**The shame was invented.** By the church. By the empire. By the elites who needed secrets to rule.The church took a man who would not be king and made him a King of Kings. They took a man who loved his boys and made him a God who condemned that love. They took a woman who witnessed the resurrection and made her a prostitute.**The final degradation is not what they did to his body on the cross. The final degradation is what they did to his life in their scriptures.****Covenant of bodies. Bodies do not lie. The bodies have been speaking for three thousand years.****It is time to listen.**