Jesus was Just a Man

I actually want to take the time today to touch on things other than the original meaning behind Easter.

First of all, I want to explain that the true meaning behind Easter isn't that we should respect prostitutes or wanton sex with strangers. That wasn't what the pagans believed at all, though it was incorporated into their teachings. The original Ishtarians (those who believed in the Goddess Ishtar) believed in the sanctity of union and they respected sex. They didn't just go out and have it for no reason, though eventually there came believers of the faith that did so, not understanding the meaning of it all.

They gave of themselves to embody the living Goddess and to honor her; they enabled equality insofar as any woman may be the embodiment of the Goddess and, in fact, they made it mandatory that every woman do so before settling down with a man, to give honor and thanks to the Goddess of Fertility. Child Birth was viewed as a sacred thing and rightly so. It wasn't a slur to call women prostitutes back then, but to give honor to those women that gave of themselves to the Goddess.

I also wanted to touch on Jesus' original teachings; which I think the church has left out for too long. It conflicted too much with what Rome wanted at the time and what Catholics and Christians wanted. In the way of men, they sought to change what was taught to suit what they wanted to believe.

Jesus did not teach any one religion or view any one God as THE God. The Catholic church; for it had yet to split and become the Christian church AND the Catholic Church for the Holy Wars had yet to happen in that regard; is the religion that Jesus knew the best and did use it in examples he used for his teaching. It was shown throughout the bible that Jesus didn't necessarily agree with the teachings of that bible or the people that improperly represented those teachings. He did see the goodness inherent and buried within, though.

Jesus mostly taught goodness toward your fellow man; love and understanding. He sought to destroy the differences between men and to show them the similarities they all shared. His mission was one of peace and was filled with much sadness because he saw what men were like; too unwilling to be peaceful and reasonable; too wild for power to give up that power for the sake of those around them.

Jesus was marked as heretic; not because he taught the same things the church did; but because he sought to teach things that the church and the people in power did not like. All of the under-privileged people loved Jesus and promoted him as a hero in their hearts. He was intelligent and thoughtful and while it seemed that he worked miracles, he only worked with what was already available to any human who was able to see the power behind the simple mechanic. He used psychology and peoples own minds to heal the people; he lived a lie so that others could believe. And they did, and what they believed became true.

When you want to know what Jesus taught, since those records have been stricken from the bible; remember that Jesus taught pure goodness; he taught that it didn't matter what you believed so long as you believed in goodness and good things. He did not judge his neighbor, though he often wished they would find ways to better themselves and move past their mental blocks of ignorance. He did not hate anyone; in fact, he felt sad for all of the people in the world at that time and all of the people that came after, because he could see the line of trouble and tribulation that lead to each person and would lead away into the future. He saw patterns and recognized the importance of those patterns and allowed them to lead his life.

In the end, Jesus was just a man; nothing extraordinary. The one difference in him is that he actively searched for goodness in his heart and all around him. He would not lay down and let darkness devour his soul. 16 years are missing from his life when you read about him in the bible; 16 years of finding himself and making mistakes that the catholic church left out of the bible to keep alive the image of perfection that they wanted; knowing that as long as people believed that Jesus was perfect; that nobody else would become like him and come so close to ruining their control of everything.

He did make mistakes; he did live life; he was confused and lost and he sinned over and over again; until he found himself in the desert, staring down an illusionary mirage of the devil created from the struggle within his own mind.

The fact is that while Mary may have still been a virgin after birthing Jesus; immaculate conception and all; Joseph did not believe that she was true to him. He became vicious and mean and all talk of Joseph after the conception ceases because of this. He probably took up drinking and became abusive to Mary and Jesus, calling her a whore and not recognizing Jesus as his son. Jesus suffered a lot in his life. He had to have, to be able to see life the way he did.

You know, I could make theories at this point that it was some alien that visited Mary and that the immaculate conception was nothing more than advanced technology and embryo placement within the womb. We're close to that stage, now; where we would be able to place an embryo within a womans womb without surgery and without sticking something up her vagina; with our own technology. The fact is, though; that nobody knows for certain what happened back then in that regard. Whether it was an Angel from God or Advanced technology.

Humans are the same no matter what age we live in, though; and we can reasonably sit here and acknowledge the simple facts of human psychology that had to have been present to make Jesus into the icon that he became.