Forgetting About Jesus

Forgetting About Jesus
Copyright all rights reserved to Monica Pereira 2013
Smashwords Edition

Easter is supposed to mark the celebration of Christ.  He was killed and then given new life as the walking dead when he was healed by a woman after his body had been put in a tomb.  The story of Christ is supposed to be a great lesson to humanity, and it is supposed to be remembered; however more often then not people forget about Christ as they worship the other side of Easter -  chocolate, gifts, bunnies, parties, and good food.  They turn the television onto sports channels, dramas, and music channels rather then watch a religious show, a show with Easter songs, or a documentary on Jesus himself.  Slowly Christ is being forgotten as the world reach around him not to him.


It is expected that the story of Christ is not actually reaching the masses.  The people of the world prefer to look at Easter as a pagan holiday rather then a religious holiday.  This makes them feel at ease, and it makes them forget about the dreary world of faith on a day when they get fine gifts and free food.  Jesus is a tale of the past, and most people agree that it is a bedtime story rather then anything of real significance.  

Jesus did not write the bible at all, and so no one really knows if they are learning his teachings or the teachings of someone who was nothing like Jesus.  The person who wrote the bible was most likely a king, or a priest, who had picked up a pen and decided to write.  Most often then not people were inspired to write after having a dream, and so the person who wrote the bible probably saw what they there were going to write about in some kind of dream, and begun their trek along the world of creative writing which lasted long.  The lessons that are being taught are lessons of good faith rather then of truth.   Jesus is a character, and as far as the world is concerned he is a drama rather then a history lesson.


When the average person looks to the bible they are filled with depression -  the bible is a very long story, and it is written in a foreign tongue.  Sure the original tongue was Hebrew, but the English version is still hard to digest.  It has rows of strange writing that is supposed to be digested slowly, and more often then not people agree that it takes too long to read and when a person does read it they do not believe they follow the true digestion of it.  The bible has been studied -  however no one truly believes they have ever grasped the clear meaning of the bible.  They do not even believe they have grasped that it could be a story of  fiction rather then non-fiction, and this is one of the real embarrassments when it comes to faith -  what is a person really trying to believe in anyway?

More often then not faith has been there to ensure that people believe in the common good.  This means that it has been used to love a neighbour, to create peaceful ties, to be able to see the world not as an enemy but as a lesson, and to be good so that humanity can live on in peace.  In many instances making a faith out of good will makes people turn good when they would have otherwise have turned mad.  It creates an uplift which many can use to cage themselves in the realm of good tidings.  A lot of people believe if the bible were not there that the world would be now living in violence and murder.  The bible reigns in the passions of the predatory man, and it makes a person think and sit as they reach out to read.  It tames the barbaric out of the wild human being, and in the tame world man is able to live on without violence on their right and left shoulder.

However it would be a little bit of an embarrassment to the world if the bible was only supposed to have been a story -  like Cinderella was a story, like Gone With The Wind was a story, like Black Beauty was a story.  If the bible were just a story then the people could read it and then learn their other lessons as their mode of faith -  they could learn about astrology, about paganism, about the side of Catholic faith that does not rely on the worship of Jesus, and of any of the other faiths that do not rely on the worship of Jesus.  The Christian story and the Christian world would be easily dismantled as not being a worship, just a make-believe that has hypnotised people into thinking of Jesus as a real person rather then what he had been -  a creation of the pen.


The bible was not written by Jesus -  in fact it was written after Jesus had supposedly lived and died (if he were ever a real person).  The bible was most probably written by a lord, a king, or a priest who had the spare time and money to write.  The bible was another person's ideas of good, evil, and morality.  It is possible that the book was written by the hand of someone who would otherwise be described as 'an enemy of Jesus', and that it was written by someone who wasn't even the same blood as Jesus.

No one knows who the true writer of the Bible was, but since it wasn't Jesus many people do wonder why they should worship Jesus as though he had lived that life and said those words which have touched so many.  Shouldn't the people who read and worship the bible read it as a scripture made by foreign hand?  Written by a person who was anyone but Jesus?  Shouldn't the people wish to discover who the writer could have been, rather then scrape the world for a cloth of Jesus, a nail of Jesus, or anything else that has been claimed to have belonged to Jesus?  What if Jesus were never anything like the story?  What if Jesus never even talked about faith unless he felt he lacked it?  What if Jesus was rude and spoke foul words unless he was drunk and in the mood for socialising?  Why would people still want to follow Jesus when their real lord was the person writing the story, who had the true mind to see the world of good and evil, and who was able to write with passion until every reader sought goodness and understanding?  Was the writer the real creator?  Was he the real lord since the people who have read his words have wanted to follow his wise so eagerly?


It is true most people know the story of Jesus, but no so many people are willing to follow Jesus at all.  They prefer to curl up on the couch and watch their news, music, sports, and television shows.  They prefer to watch what is current and trendy in the modern world, rather then recall the story of Jesus.  There is a good feeling to being able to drink hot chocolate and watch television until a person is able to feel good.  There is a good feeling to being coddled by what makes a person feel warm.  When a person forgets about Jesus they forget about toil, they forget about poverty -  instead they feel warm with food, television, telephone, and a good house.  The world can forget about the weather by closing their windows.  They can forget, and this closed world makes a person feel good -  why should they care about Jesus when the world is so perfect without him?