Monday, July 15, 2013

Do people forget that Jesus lost and died a horrible death?

I was set on another mental birdwalk today while listening to the radio.  When we tell our kids to live your life like Jesus did are we saying we want them to be social revolutionaries who give up their regular lives to challenge the most power empire in the world and lose? While small parts of his story would be cooped into a world religion, Jesus lost his fight against the Roman occupation of Israel (and the decadent culture they brought with them) and he died quite horribly for it. What parent thinks to themselves "I want to give my kids values that lead to them being force marched through the streets and crucified by the government?" This led me to wonder as long as we are tell our children to live meaningful lives, should we be teaching our kids to be more like Osama Bin Laden rather than Jesus. Osama also led a revolution to oust a foreign invader and their foreign culture from his country. Imagine if Saudi Arabia wanted to create enclaves of armed soldiers in the US that were governed by Saudi not US law, and the US government just gave away whole parts of cities to Saudi Arabia to make this happen. Very few if any Americans, especially the Americans who had their land taken, would just stand idly by and let that happen without armed revolt...so honestly if you were counseling your children on how to react - would you tell them to fight like Jesus and MLK? OR like Osama? All 3 died..but while Jesus and MLK peaceful demonstration just led more praceful demonstration and endless debate - I'm pretty sure no one will be building foreign bases in a Muslim county any time soon.

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Quotes

At a certain stage the realization strikes through that one must either live outside of society's bonds or die of absolute boredom. There is no future or freedom in the circumscribed life and the only other life is complete rejection of the rules. There is no longer room for the soldier of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I chose the nothing.

-James Bolivar DiGriz