Ideas Are Bulletproof

The Ascension is often treated as a spatial puzzle, as though the point were to determine whether Jesus literally floated upward and where, precisely, the cloud went afterward. I think the angels are telling us to stop looking in that direction. The Ascension is about anti-capture. Rome killed Jesus publicly, violently, and thoroughly. Rome could not kill the way he embodied. Christ slips beyond the machinery of empire, and the movement becomes distributed through the community that will soon receive the Spirit. I call on the movie V for Vendetta carefully in this episode, not as an ethical model, but as a structural image. V’s methods are violent, and Jesus’ way is the opposite. Still, the line holds: beneath the body there is more than flesh. There is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof. The way of Christ is bulletproof. You are welcome here. Protected Speech | Views My Own Between Bread and Stone © 2026 Stephen Brewer. All rights reserved. Podcast audio and full text may be quoted for noncommercial purposes with attribution. Gospel text from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Get full access to Drawing the Line at percival84.substack.com/subscribe