Revelation’s promise of a bloodthirsty God and a blood-drenched Christ represents for me the creation of a second “coming” to negate the first and only “coming” of Christ; the fabrication of violent apocalypse to deny nonviolent incarnation; and the invention of Christ on a warhorse to erase the historical Jesus on a peace donkey. Jesus’s nonviolent resistance to evil is replaced by Christ’s violent slaughter of evildoers. The challenge was never the Jesus of history versus the Christ of faith but the Jesus Christ of nonviolence versus the Christ Jesus of violence.
