25 May 2008

Give us this day our daily... pie??

So I know a chick who has a bit of a liking for Pie Jesu. On purely aurally delighting grounds rather than anything religious or, you know, meaningful I hasten to add. No judgement, each to their own etc...
I know another chick, present at the time the first one was typing Pie Jesu into youtube (as one does. Frequently, I find), whom the phrase 'for somebody who's supposed to be bright...' was probably coined in reference to. She, needless to say, thought that the youtube search was for Jesus pie.
Now there is more sense to this than one may first assume. Although one is definitely more pastry based than the other, they are arguably just as wholesome. And Pie (pronounced pee-ay of course) is most commonly translated as 'sweet'. So it kind of fits, as long as we are thinking of dessert as opposed to the stodgy meat'n'gravy, steak'n'kidney type fare.
God used the male human form to spread the word, inhabiting the flesh, so is it really so much of a leap of conciousness to think of Jesus as a slice of pie? Catholics are always eating the body of Christ after all. Why not make it a delicious American Key Lime pie? Or a French patisserie-style latticed tarte au citron (though perhaps without the criss-cross patterning, ah-hem)? Or a good old traditional apple pie for those Old Testament fundamentalists? Satisfying both the soul and stomach.
We shall, in the end, all receive our just desserts on the day of Judgement, so why not indulge in a bit of spiritual pud in this life, eh?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

And there we were watching Indiana Jones when you were working all this out.........good arguement, but possibly flawed.

Anonymous said...

I am SOOOOOO jealous! Would you be up for going again on my return? I have the picture blu-tacked to my wall and am gagging to go see. Oh Harrison- god love geriatric hotness... Bet Dad was scathing of it. But also hope that he would be willing to go again and accompany his first-born and only daughter....

Anonymous said...

I think dad may prefer to socialise at a party rather than got to see it again. J said 'it's gash'. I thought it had some very funny moments and Harrison still does his thing. The story is a little bit far fetched.........