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Recieved: 2003/12/10 00:58
Subject: [K-list] Jesus was an activist?
From: Stephen Kowalchuk
On 2003/12/10 00:58, Stephen Kowalchuk posted thus to the K-list:
Ummm....I thought Jesus was a troublemaker....he had a great but
impractical idea (aren't all great ideas impractical?) which wasn't very
well accepted by the Romans and local politicos.
He shot his mouth off one too many times and they nailed him to a tree as
an example.
The people he got through to with his idea (the new covenant, golden rule,
and so on) were impressed, and called him the Christ, because they were fed
up with the status quo and needed to believe in someone to come along and
redeem them from the Pax Romana (not very pax-ful for non-citizens) on one
hand and the Sanhedrin on the other.
While these folks perpetuated his great ideas and caused more trouble, they
likewise suffered quite a bit at the hands of the less enlightened. John
the Baptist and Paul of Tarsus, for example, were beheaded. Stephen, the
first Christian martyr, was stoned. Andrew was crucified, and took 2 days
to die. Peter was crucified upside-down (!!).
It seems there is a long list of people who are willing to die for "the truth".
Centuries later, Galileo (another troublemaker) stood before the Pope and
suggested that the sun was the center of the universe, not the earth.
It was an excellent idea, and far in advance of his peers. His work (along
with that of Copernicus and Kepler) is the first of the great discoveries
of the Age of Reason, and many people around him quietly applauded his
findings. For promoting the truth he was placed under house arrest at the
order of the Inquisition, who called his great ideas heresy and the work of
the devil. His accomplice, Giordano Bruno, was burned at the stake.
Michel de Nostradamus had an amazing gift of prophecy which he humbly
shared from time to time as a service in addition to his gifts as a
physician and astrologer. He had many, many great ideas and visions, but
largely kept them to himself or wrote them in his journals. He never
claimed to be more than a conduit for whatever observations came to him.
His life was relatively quiet, interesting, and financially lucrative. He
was well-liked, married a hot (and wealthy!) French woman, and lived to the
ripe old age of 63. 500 years later, people still read about him and
marvel at the accuracy and detail of his work.
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The moral of the story --
1. The "greatness" of an idea is a relative concept.
2. Likewise, "truth" is a relative concept, and exists whether or not we
acknowledge it.
3. You don't have to shoot your mouth off to get your point
across. Getting nailed
to a tree over it doesn't seem to add much value either.
Just my observations.
Steve
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