{"id":7905,"date":"2018-04-02T13:05:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2018-04-02T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:10:12","slug":"kw-13-2018-leonard-cohen-and-christianity-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=7905","title":{"rendered":"KW-13-2018: Leonard Cohen &#8230; and Christianity (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/cohenpedia-archives-Interview-with-Leonard_Cohen-by-Christof_Graf_1988-LiveMagazinSaar-1988-page1.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in a Catholic city, and all through Quebec the church is very strong. And I had an Irish-Catholic nanny; because my father was sick and my mother was usually at the hospital taking care of him, I was brought up part Catholic in a certain way. The figure of Christ touched me very early in my life. My radical Catholic friends were very angry at me for this Christological infatuation. Because they had really been oppressed by the church. To me it was romance. And there were many georeligious ideas I could speculate on. For one thing, I could see Christianity as the great missionary arm of Judaism. So I felt a certain patronizing interest in this version of the thing. I didn\u2019t have to believe it. But I was talking today to a friend of mine, and it came to me that Christ\u2019s image is just the perfect symbol for our civilization. It\u2019s a perfect event for us \u2013 you have to die to survive. Because the personality is crucified in our society. That\u2019s why so many people collapse, why the mental hospitals are full. Nobody can survive with the personality that they want, which is the hero of their own drama. That hero dies, it\u2019s massacred, and the self that is reborn remembers that crucifixion. And we\u2019re doing that every day. This Christian myth at the center of our society is very good. It\u2019s workable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>QUELLE\/ SOURCE:\u00a0 Leonard Cohen\u2019s Nervous Breakthrough by Mark Rowland, Musician, July 1988.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ich bin in einer katholischen Stadt aufgewachsen und in ganz Quebec ist die Kirche sehr stark. Und ich hatte ein irisch-katholisches Kinderm\u00e4dchen; Weil mein Vater krank war und meine Mutter sich normalerweise im Krankenhaus um ihn k\u00fcmmerte, wurde ich in gewisser Weise teilweise katholisch erzogen. Die Gestalt Christi ber\u00fchrte mich sehr fr\u00fch in meinem Leben. Meine radikalen katholischen Freunde waren sehr w\u00fctend auf mich wegen dieser christologischen Verliebtheit. Weil sie wirklich von der Gemeinde unterdr\u00fcckt worden waren. F\u00fcr mich war es Romantik. Und es gab viele georeligi\u00f6se Ideen, \u00fcber die ich spekulieren konnte. Zum einen k\u00f6nnte ich das Christentum als den gro\u00dfen missionarischen Arm des Judentums sehen. So f\u00fchlte ich ein gewisses bevormundendes Interesse an dieser Version der Sache. Ich musste es nicht glauben. Aber ich sprach heute mit einem meiner Freunde, und es kam zu mir, dass das Bild Christi nur das perfekte Symbol f\u00fcr unsere Zivilisation ist. Es ist ein perfektes Ereignis f\u00fcr uns &#8211; du musst sterben um zu \u00fcberleben. Weil die Pers\u00f6nlichkeit in unserer Gesellschaft gekreuzigt wird. Deshalb kollabieren so viele Menschen, warum die Nervenheilanstalten voll sind. Niemand kann mit der Pers\u00f6nlichkeit \u00fcberleben, die sie wollen, die der Held ihres eigenen Dramas ist. Dieser Held stirbt, er wird massakriert, und das Selbst, das wiedergeboren wird, erinnert sich an diese Kreuzigung. Und das machen wir jeden Tag. christliche Mythos im Zentrum unserer Gesellschaft ist sehr gut. Es ist praktikabel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I grew up in a Catholic city, and all through Quebec the church is very strong. And I had an Irish-Catholic nanny; because my father was sick and my mother was usually at the hospital taking care of him, I was brought up part Catholic in a certain way. 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