They say feminist Naomi Wolf is now a Christian. Could be. I'm neither convinced nor skeptical. I'm just waiting to see:
Today, Wolf seems sharp and incisive . This is no Valley Girl on some psychobabble trip. But when one of the foremost feminists in the world, who is Jewish to boot, says she has met Jesus, the ultimate figure of Christianity and the redeemer of lost souls, it's more than a little disconcerting.
She describes this mystical experience ”“ which happened “a few years ago” ”“ as terrifying, inexplicable and “completely not the appropriate spiritual experience of someone of my background”.
Too right. According to Judaism, Jesus is not God made flesh, or a Messianic vision. In a profane world, for anyone of Wolf's publicly acknowledged intellect to confess to achieving spiritual fulfilment through Jesus is to invite mockery. In her native America, where interfaith rivalry informs all politics, it is a highly volatile admission. Typically of a writer who has spent a lifetime self-dramatising her experiences, Wolf's epiphany seems to have been of Damascene proportions.
“I was completely dumbfounded but I actually had this vision of ”¦ of Jesus, and I'm sure it was Jesus.” Anticipating a raised eyebrow, she adds quickly: “But it wasn't this crazy theological thing; it was just this figure who was the most perfected human being ”“ full of light and full of love. And completely accessible. Any of us could be like that. There was light coming out of him holographically, simply because he was unclouded. But any of us could become that as human beings.”
