Are You a ‘Christian’ or a Follower of Jesus?
It’s a truly bizarre thing that devotees of pomp and ceremony, neoliberal capitalists, judgemental bigots and racist white nationalists claim to be Christians. And often use their self-proclaimed status to belittle and pass judgement on those who don’t identify as such or choose different ways of approaching life and the divine.
We don’t know much about the real life of Jesus as most claims were made in four 'gospels' that are now known to have been drafted quite some time after his death. They were NOT written by contemporaries of Jesus but produced and wielded by marketeers and propagandists of what became powerful (often authoritarian, abusive and misogynistic) and wealthy empires.
In addition to the dishonesty regarding their origin and the sub-GCSE level copy and paste job in the 'gospels' of 'Matthew’, 'Mark' and 'Luke' (’John' is quite aberrant), the mythology must be questioned and recognised as such. We live in a much better educated era and it is acceptable to question, for example, if Mary was really impregnated by this perplexing and somewhat volatile ’God' character.
And if Mary, who was likely to have been a teenager at the time, was impregnated by a man, then the claims that Jesus was both the son of God and an aspect of God on Earth must be questioned. Not so long ago someone would have been burned…
