Jake van der Kamp

The Last Priest: A Polemic in four laments

Author: Jake van der Kamp

What might it be like to live as the last formal priest of a great religion when you know that a few lichen encrusted pieces of stonework are all that will remain of your beliefs once you pass away? For the last priest of Apollo, facing his doom at the hands of vengeful Christians, there is defiance. For the last sage of the south seas, facing the extinction of his culture at the hands of Christian missionaries, there is confidence that God is not an exclusive Christian possession. For the last priest of Jesus Christ there is deep sadness as he surrenders to his doubts and rejects the resurrection and divinity of Jesus as incompatible with the great discoveries of science. From the last great student of the Christian religion a hundred years hence comes a warning that the demise of Christianity has let loose devils happy to risk the doom of humanity.

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