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Greg Todd's avatar

Excellent piece! The trust fall that your friend Adam has taken reminds me of a prayer a guy named Jesus wrote 2,000 years ago.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

I'm not proselytizing, just observing the similarities. Who Jesus really was and what the official church has made him are two entirely different people. Jesus was anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, distrusted authority and generally preferred the company of women to men.

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Adam Wilson's avatar

Well, observed Todd. I heard people describe the similarities between my work and the call for the kingdom for several years before I sat down and opened that big, complicated book of stories. From what I can tell, he was a cultural trickster to the extreme, and I admire the heck out of him now that I set down my resistance to the associations.

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