The expression "Plumpes Denken" was used by Bertolt Brecht to describe a type of "crude thinking" that has no patience with obfuscation. I've been having fun lately applying such thinking to the Bible.
Reading Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary the other day, I came upon the following passage under "ghost":
"There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or 'in his habit as he lived.' To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics."
That started a whole chain of thoughts related to religion. The first was this: was Jesus naked when he appeared to his disciples after his resurrection? The gospels are careful to emphasize that, when he rose again, he left behind the grave clothes.
At some point, he must've acquired an outfit because, when the disciples met him on the road to Emmaus, they didn't see anything out of the ordinary in his appearance. Perhaps he killed someone for his clothes, like the Terminator? Or perhaps his Heavenly Father made him a spiritual garment. After all, they couldn't have been normal clothes because Jesus was able to appear magically within locked rooms. Even if Jesus himself could teleport through the walls, it seems as if ordinary clothes would snag on something.
