Monday, December 21, 2009

Was the Sham Jesus or the Bible?

I've been kind of testy for a while. I've kind of wanted people to challenge me in a way, to vent anger coming from and unidentified source. I wish I knew where it is coming from, or what I can do to sooth it, but in a way... I don't want to sooth it. I want to focus on a target and hit it as many times as I can.
Right now it's Jesus.
Maybe the reason it's Jesus is because, guess what? It's nearly Christmas.
It just seems that as the day gets closer, the more stupid the story seems to be...

National Geographic. That's it. And, and Discovery, and History Channel. They're the things that hardcore Christians would say have "corrupted" my mind. And yet.
I've always had my doubts. Always.
These shows just seem to back me up. I mean, Jesus born in a manger? What, like a barn separated from the house? Uh. No. More than likely the manger sat under the "Inn", kind of like basement where the animals were kept.
And Jesus, a holy man? What do you think he did for those years in which he disappeared in the Bible? It's enough time to have a wife and kids.
The list of inaccuracies goes on and on.
Honestly, I find the REAL Jesus far more interesting than anything the bible might have said about him. They seem like such silly stories to me. He cast out a demon? He stopped a storm? He revived the dead?
Sham.
You know what is a REAL miracle?
That MILLIONS of people around the world are convinced that the Bible tells the all knowing, absolute truth and Jesus is the all divine son of God and have shaped him to be a man who has long golden locks and a long angelic face.
Come on, people. He was a Jew in Nazareth.
Lately, it's not even about religion anymore...not about what Jesus preached at all. In fact, lately it's about proving the other side wrong and sounding super hypocritical doing it.
"Everything in the bible is truth, goddammit!"
"Everything in that book is a lie! I hope Jesus takes pity on the stupid."
Really? I'm not trying to out Jesus. I'm trying to look at the 'hard proof', as some call it... Trying to look at the bible wondering why people have such strong faith in it.
I'm trying to get the reality of things. Because to me, the reality of how he grew up, of what his birthday REALLY was and what his life was spent like is more of a miracle, more of an interesting story, more MAGICAL than that which is written in the bible.
The book written by men SIXTY years after his death. SIXTY years. And even then certain gospels are left out because the group of men censoring what went into the bible decided that THEY would be the ones shaping this story/religion and left out key elements, key clues as to what his story truly was... or at least what THEY wanted it to be.
When I take a step back and look it, I wonder with grave concern, why I once believed so strongly in it, too.

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