For him, it was proof that "the veil between life and the afterlife is so thin, we can interact with our families and our saviour through it".
These children believe the parent can be shamed into telling the truth, and that this will somehow correct the issue forever that they, and only they, can be the family's saviour through the strength of their goodness.
Well, it was like the saviour coming through.
On the Jewish side, the moral sense was outraged, and the bitterness to some extent still lingers, that the communicants of a religion whose Deity is a God of Love and whose Saviour brings salvation through mercy should, for example, inaugurate a crusade to the Holy Land to rescue the tomb of this Saviour by massacres of their Jewish compatriots.
Mind you, plans are underway for next year's crucifixion, so if you want to bear witness to what your saviour had to go through all those years ago, you know where to go.
Related to soteriological myths in many cases is the hope for a final and total salvation in which the "good" powers will triumph, such as through Saoshyant, the saviour in Zoroastrianism.
Still, with his free hand Lazarus punched the beast's throat, punched the tongue thick as pork loin, hollered all the while as the teeth stabbed him worse than the nails rammed through the poor Saviour.
It does the heart a power of good to find the old boy marauding through Scotland as saviour of a Better Together campaign conducted with such smug incompetence that it has itself come to resemble a character from The Iliad (a Trojan Horse into the heart of the unionwheeled by Salmond of the Many Wiles).
In two weeks, the Stop Kony campaign created a forest fire of mutterings about sentimental exploitation, new missionaries and the white man's inclination to play the saviour of Africa's peoples through condescending and patronising depictions of our suffering.
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In popular folklore bodhisattvas appear as something like saviour deities, a role they acquired both through the evolution of earlier ideas and through fusion with already existing local gods.
