If I Were Jesus

[BeFree]

I'd be scratching my head wondering where I screwed up.

I'd be wondering how all those good, loving words of mine could become so twisted and maligned.

How folks who call themselves followers of mine could believe so fervently in war, and warmaking machinery, when what I taught was peace and putting away the sword.

How the celebration of my birth could become something so opposite of what my life on earth was meant to be.

If I were Jesus, I'd be terribly frustrated these days, eh?

[MoseyWalker]

1. People have always screwed up the message

for financial gain.

peace!

[MathEducation]

2. If I were Jesus...

I'd give some (many) of my "followers" a NUDGE in the right direction. Perhaps like the ghost of Christmas Future in Scrooge. Or maybe a ball of fire or two like in the Old Testament.

GW Bush would know damn well that he'd had a conversation with me; like Paul on the road to Damascus. The world would see a very different Bush if he really had a conversation with Jesus.

These Christians that "hate" homosexuals would wake up with their "dirty laundry" on CNN and the newspaper front page...

And the ones against abortion would get the opportunity to adopt a couple thousand starving children, feed them, cloth them and send them to college with their own precious children. Good bye million dollar home...good bye Lexus...good bye Rolex...

And those who support war would get a call from the draft board; you're never too old...

If I were Jesus, I'd kick some Christian butt...

[bobbolink]

3. I"d be ready to overturn more temple tables,

and grab people by the collar and demand they change the system to bring life and love to poor folk, as I told them to do.

[eridani]

4. And if the three Wise Men had been three Wise Women--

--they would have stopped and asked for directions, gotten there on time, helped deliver the baby, cleaned up and put down fresh straw, brought practical gifts, and made a casserole. :)

Old, but still good.

[DarkTirade]

5. If you were Jesus...

you'd have died a couple thousand years ago... and wouldn't be making this post. :)
Hmm... there's no 'tasteless humor' image... I'd imagine it would be dripping like the :sarcasm: one, only a dirty green color.

[BeFree]

6. You don't quite get it, do you?

Jesus is an idea. The idea is not dead, not just yet, anyway.

The idea has been fought from day one, but it still lives. The idea is that instead of fighting one another with weapons of death and destruction, one fights the bad with love.

When properly used, the idea is unconquerable.

Do not be deceived by the wolves in sheeps clothing who wear the idea of Jesus like a hat, but know yee that real Christians are those who are behind all the good that has made this country what it is.

What the world needs now is more people who live the idea of a Jesus who cares for all of the gifts of life we enjoy as sentinent beings upon this little blue ball spinning in the vast blackness of infinite space.

[H2O Man]

8. "Jesus is an idea"

"Jesus was a Jew. He was the finest flower of Judaism. You can see that from the four stories of the four apostles. They had untutored minds. They told the truth about Jesus. Paul was not a Jew, he was a Greek, he had an oratorical mind, a dialectical mind, and he distorted Jesus. Jesus possessed a great force, the love force, but Christianity became disfigured when it went west. It became the religion of kings."
-- Gandhi

[bobbolink]

10. "I like your Jesus. Your Christians, not so much"

paraphrased, of course.

bobbolink, just wondering if there's a book you *haven't* read.... :hi:

[DarkTirade]

13. Umm... it's called a joke.

And you obviously didn't get it.

[BeFree]

14. No, I didn't get the joke, obviously

You wrote: If you were Jesus...

you'd have died a couple thousand years ago... and wouldn't be making this post. :)


Sorry to have bothered you. My bad.

[kentuck]

7. Jesus would be depressed...

thinking about the special gift of life and the disregard for life by his fellow man...

[SpiralHawk]

9. For the record -- the big question is not What Would Jesus Do?

Here I refer to the evangelical fascination with that question, not so much the original post.

As it happens, the real philosophical question raised by the book "In His Steps" was never the narrow "What Would Jesus Do?"

It was: "What would I do if I were the Christ?"

A very different question -- leading down broader paths of contemplation...

[BeFree]

11. Indeed

So my OP was pointed: How would I feel were I like Christ?

The idea is that we could all be God-like. If we just tried.

Problem is; no one really knows exactly what God is. Jesus was just an example of the path to that discovery.

If there is a singular God, then there would be an end. But since our world is infinite there must be an infinite God, eh?

The idea, this Jesus, brought the infinity to a point where some sense could be made of it. And for that I am glad.

Mele Kalikimaka!

[dand]

12. I would be depressed by all the evil wrought by different

religions of every stripe, I would wish that religion had been wiped out 2000 years ago, before the crusades, the inquisition and the dark ages, institutionalized pedophilia and suicide bombers.