It's infectious". He explained to Nazanin Angoshtari, 33, an Islamic Sufi, how the Ethiopian and Egyptian Christians, among others, split with the Romans over how to define the nature of Christ in 451 A.D. Romans defined Christ as both man and God, while Ethiopians were among the group that felt Christ had a single divine nature.
On Nitty Gritty, he cries: "I feel like Christ on the cross with a loaded gun!", which gets you wondering precisely what Christ on the cross would do with a loaded gun, bearing in mind that he's got his hands nailed to planks of wood.
I feel like Jesus Christ after he's done his three days in Hell, I feel like a boy who has just discovered the joys of self-abuse, I feel like Sir Edmund Hillary after he's stumbled to the top of Everest, all three joys all at once.
"I think because Gypsies have been marginalised for so long, when they do find Christ they feel especially empowered because suddenly someone is saying that they have the same rights as everybody else.
Hobby Lobby's owners, who are Christian — they buy ads in newspapers on Easter recommending that people get to know Jesus Christ — feel that their right to worship freely is being denied by the Affordable Care Act.
He felt that Christ himself would agree with him on that point".
To feel compassion for Christ, in the private drama of the heart that these texts stage, was to feel like a woman.
In many ways I feel close to Christ in my current form.
How would Christ feel coming back to a toxic waste dump we've made of this earth?
In his monumental canvas Doubting Thomas (1643), the subject is beautifully attuned to the aims of the Baroque: the apostle Thomas inserts his finger in the wound in Christ's side, leading the viewer to feel the presence of Christ and to experience his suffering.
