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ohn the Baptist is an unkempt prophet of doom who eats locusts and invents the baptism ritual, a washing of followers that represents an internal repentance. Jesus himself receives baptism from the prophet.
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| John's condemnation of the corruption under Herod gets him thrown into jail. Herod's daughter Salome becomes both fascinated and repelled by the prophet. When he rejects her advances, she uses the sexually explicit Dance of the Seven Veils to manipulate her father into giving her John the Baptist's decapitated head.
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| This stands out as the most erotically charged of the Bible stories, with intimations of incest, castration and necrophilia. It is one hell of a fiery tale and if Jesus Christ hadn't come along, John the Baptist would have been the hero of the New Testament, in which case we'd all be wearing decapitated heads instead of crosses around our necks!
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