Posted on 01/27/2006 9:06:30 PM PST by tbird5
Wolf first made a name for herself with "The Beauty Myth," a 1991 feminist critique of feminine stereotypes. Admired by some and ridiculed by others, Wolf has since written on everything from motherhood to promiscuity. During the 2000 election campaign, she famously advised Al Gore to work on being an "alpha male," and her most recent book, a folksy memoir about her father, left many erstwhile fans clearing their throats in embarrassment.
Maybe that's what pushed Wolf toward Jesus. In an interview published last weekend in Scotland's Glasgow Sunday Herald, Wolf announced that she had been struggling with a midlife crisis a few years ago when she went into "a light meditative state." That's when it happened: "I was completely dumbfounded but I actually had this vision of … of Jesus."
If that doesn't sound like the Naomi Wolf you love (or hate), Wolf agrees. "I wasn't myself in this visual experience. I was a 13-year-old boy sitting next to him [Jesus] and feeling feelings I'd never felt in my lifetime…. It was probably the most profound experience of my life."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Looks a little like George Carlin except nicer.
We should really pray that she has found, or will find the Lord. (because we all know who the "hip" Jesus really is in disguise)
In the early part of the last century, a wealthy family of non-observant Jews - indeed atheists - from Paris went on vacation to Italy. Their daughter entered a chapel to see the frescoes, and there Christ came to her. Simone Weil became a Christian and during her short ascetic life she wrote some of the most profound religious meditations of the century.
I dreamt I was a cheeseburger sitting next to Ghandi. I felt quite safe.
Huh? Any 'authoritative' links on that?
No, go read the New Testament. To some (of course Paul's Damascus Road experience being the most prominent) Jesus appeared, to others he did not. Don't feel slighted.
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Trust but verify.
Hmmmmm, a 13 year old boy?
In my own family, that's a tradition we cherish. I grew up hearing about my great-great-grandmother Mamie O'Laughlin. As her father lay dying, Mamie summoned a priest to his bedside. The priest sent back a message demanding $25, far beyond the family's meager means, and her father died without the sacrament. Later, when Mamie herself lay dying, a priest came — this time unbidden. He offered Mamie the crucifix. Summoning up the last of her strength, she furiously flung it across the room.
Then there was my paternal great-grandfather, Chaim Steinbrook, born in the mid-1800s in a Russian Jewish village where his own father was a grain merchant and self-styled Talmudic scholar. In one version of the family legend, Chaim's father refused to let his hungry neighbors consume any of his plentiful grain during a year of famine, because the grain had been planted after the previous Passover and thus was not yet kosher. Disgusted, 14-year-old Chaim ran way from home and found his way to America, where he later refused to let his children even visit the local synagogue's playground.
So, in one swipe, both religious Christians and religious Jews are slammed by the Latimes as they discuss what happened to Naomi...
Water is wet, and gee ... the Mainstream Media is nothing if not consistent.
Sorry to be cynical, but I am confident that her conversion is as sincere as Jane Fonda's.
I was praying for her as I went to sleep and it popped into my head that what she described as a religious experience was called "astral projection" in the 70's. Hip Jesus indeed.
After Naomi does an image makeover, complete with those muy macho earth-tone robes, this Christian shtick could become like ... you know ... a world-wide movement. And the timing!
Just when Seinfeld is going into re-runs! Wolfie, you're a bloody genius.
"I wasn't myself in this visual experience. I was a 13-year-old boy sitting next to him and feeling feelings I'd never felt in my lifetime. It was probably the most profound experience of my life."
What were the feelings... puberty?
Many think they are Christians because they were born in the Christian Nation, the USA.
Bill O'Reilly thinks he's a Christian because he is a Catholic.
Many pastors think they are Christian because they went to seminary and teach from a pulpit.
I believe I am a Christian because I have accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.
Color me a bit skeptical...but there seems to be a lot of this going around lately...anytime a lib wants to get back into the news...OR SELL MORE BOOKS...they seem to find Jesus. Anyway, no skin off my back.
I actually may have been thinking of Ann Rice when I posted that, no one else even questioned it!! Here is one site;
http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/aug05/rowling2.htm
J.K.Rowling;
Jo Rowling has stated that one of the most irritating results of the books' success has been the criticism from
some Christian groups that the books are un-Christian and promote the occult. Those groups infuriate the author, who is has said in interviews that she is a Christian, she believes in God and that she attends church.
(she belongs to the Church of Scotland, which Americans would call the Presbyterian Church).
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