Christians indeed have a strange image of God: a naked, bleeding man dying on a cross. Let’s be honest. If we were going to create a religion, would we ever have thought up this image of God? If I had been setting out to manufacture a religion, I would have manufactured “seven habits for highly effective people.” I would have a big sun or a big golden orb for the symbol of God and I would have called God “the Force.” But never in a thousand years would I have thought of an image of God as a naked, bleeding, poor man, rejected by both society and religion.
