humorous eschatological interlude …

In A New Kind of Christianity (from which I’m taking a five-minute break), I’m addressing ten questions that I think are especially catalytic at this time. One of them has to do with eschatology. My hunch is that most of our popular eschatologies do to Jesus exactly what Weird Al Yankovitch does to Gandhi in UHF, in my opinion, one of the great comedic masterpieces since the Big Bang. The so-called “second coming” perfectly invalidates and overturns the first, converting Jesus into a more proper and respectable Caesar-like ruler after all. Enjoy, and then reflect …