Behold the Man

Title: Behold the Man
Author: Michael Moorcock
Published: 1969 originally
Genre: Science fiction
Pages: 124


It's been about five years since I last read Behold the Man, and then it was in Finnish. Karl Glogauer, psychiatrist manque -learned a new word there!- and time-traveller, has just met the Jesus. Obsessed with religion and Jesus Christ, when he was given the opportunity to try out a time machine, Karl chose to travel back in time to see the man himself. It's safe to say that what he ends up finding... well, it's nothing like what he was expecting. 

Behold the Man is short -read it in one sitting- but it doesn't mean that it's not full of thought-provoking ideas abour religion, destiny and such things. While I enjoyed it as much as five years back, I still maintain that it may not be the best present for that one religious auntie if you want to stay in her will.


   "Christianity is dead." Monica sipped her tea. "Religion is dying. God was killed in 1945."
   "There may yet be a resurrection," he said.
   "Let us hope not. Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive."
   "You think there's no fear about these days?"
   "Not the same kind, Karl."