Jose Saramago – The Gospel of Jesus Christ

The Jesus Christ Gospel is something that each Christian knows, but this book caught me and caught me good. Why?
As a child I spent three months of the year at my grandparents, on the country side and there each Sunday everybody went to church (even the dog came with us and waited for us outside the church), listening or understanding what the priest was trying to say, wasn’t the point for me. I don’t remember understanding anything at that time but I heard the biblical story of Jesus Christ. The way that biblical story was presented was something like this, he was born that time at that location, he did that and that miracles, he died for us and most of all he was God’s son. Call me ignorant but this is all I knew about him, and I always wondered how he was as a child? did he have friends? Did he go to school? , what did he do between those miracles what was he thinking? but I didn’t dare ask questions like that. Now Saramago came and wrote the answer for all my questions in this book, don’t forget it’s all fiction, but it’s funny, profound philosophical, considered to be a blasphemy by the church.
This is what God told his son: “You will be the spoon I deep into humanity and bring out filled with people who believe in the new God I intend to become. Filled with people You will eat. There’s no need for Me to eat those who eat themselves”

Read this book if you dare :-), you have to be a very open minded Christian to read it.
It’s FABULOUS.