What if Jesus Christ had to choose a religion? (A pondering thread)

[shereads]

Would he be a rabbi? A priest? Would he operate a little storefront ministry off of MLK Jr. Boulevard in west Savannah?

For the sake of discussion, let's say he's born into this millennium instead of that other one, lives among us as an ordinary man. Inherits a carpentry business with a panel truck, etc. All modern religions are just as we know them, only Jesus' name is different to avoid confusion. Does he choose one and attempt to reform it? Does he reject them all and start one from scratch?

 

[DesertPirate]

Would he be a rabbi? A priest? Would he operate a little storefront ministry off of MLK Jr. Boulevard in west Savannah?

For the sake of discussion, let's say he's born into this millennium instead of that other one, lives among us as an ordinary man. Inherits a carpentry business with a panel truck, etc. All modern religions are just as we know them, only Jesus' name is different to avoid confusion. Does he choose one and attempt to reform it? Does he reject them all and start one from scratch?

He would do what he did the last time and try to fix the religeon he was born into.

 

[shereads]

He would do what he did the last time and try to fix the religeon he was born into.

What if he's born Hindu?

 

[TE999]

He would do what he did the last time and try to fix the religion he was born into.

For the temerity of those efforts, unfortunately, he was handed over to the Romans to be crucified.

I'm not sure a similar result wouldn't occur today...crucifying his character and reputation most likely. He might start his own church and...given his divinity...would become a success.

 

[shereads]

I started writing a clarification of my original question, but I forgot what I meant.

Nevermind.

 

[Guest]

He would live simply. He'd recycle.

He would give his time and love to help those less fortunate.

He would try to share his lessons with everyone.

He'd be thought of as a scruffy little guru.

He wouldn't be taken seriously by those in power.

 

[3113]

For the temerity of those efforts, unfortunately, he was handed over to the Romans to be crucified.

And with such words began a 2000 year anti-Semitic campaign to blame the Jews for just about everything. Worked, too. Shall we resurrect the gas chambers?

 

[elsol]

Would he be a rabbi? A priest? Would he operate a little storefront ministry off of MLK Jr. Boulevard in west Savannah?

For the sake of discussion, let's say he's born into this millennium instead of that other one, lives among us as an ordinary man. Inherits a carpentry business with a panel truck, etc. All modern religions are just as we know them, only Jesus' name is different to avoid confusion. Does he choose one and attempt to reform it? Does he reject them all and start one from scratch?

*burp*

He becomes a cult leader... but that's pretty much it, because when he raises the dead the government offs him. No government on the planet would tolerate the type of overhaul a man like could command.

I know if I were in power and someone did a verifiable miracle -- they're fucking dead, no questions asked. *pop*pop*pop* and all his followers go to paradise with him.

 

[TE999]

And with such words began a 2000 year anti-Semitic campaign to blame the Jews for just about everything. Worked, too. Shall we resurrect the gas chambers?

Do you specialize in overeaction 3, or is it just an occasional blurt?

I was merely recounting events related in the Bible and folklore, not suggesting a new Crystallnacht or Final Solution. Sheesh.

Granted, the incident described has been used as a convenient excuse to pursecute the Jews, along with bank failures, Germany losing WW I, usurious loans, sour milk, nepotisim and discount retailing.

Jesus would be the flavor of the month for the news outlets, then sink into obscurity once more. No doubt the fault of the Jewish controlled media.

 

[3113]

Do you specialize in overeaction 3, or is it just an occasional blurt?

We will grant that tribalism in humanity allows for any group to commit genocide on any other group for any reason; usually this reason is practical--you want their land, or money--while the declared reason is a myth created to excuse the slaughter (like, these people use the blood of innocent babies in their rituals).

You'll forgive me, however, if I tend to take any inference, even oblique ones, that Jews were Christ-killers a little personally. I rather think you'd feel the same way about a myth created to excuse atrocities on a certain group of people if your murdered relatives belonged to that tribe, and if you'd seen a number tattooed on your grandmother's arm from her time in a death camp.

It tends to make a person "overreact" when that particular myth is repeated.

 

[Guest]

We will grant that tribalism in humanity allows for any group to commit genocide on any other group for any reason; usually this reason is practical--you want their land, or money--while the declared reason is a myth created to excuse the slaughter (like, these people use the blood of innocent babies in their rituals).

You'll forgive me, however, if I tend to take any inference, even oblique ones, that Jews were Christ-killers a little personally. I rather think you'd feel the same way about a myth created to excuse atrocities on a certain group of people if your murdered relatives belonged to that tribe, and if you'd seen a number tattooed on your grandmother's arm from her time in a death camp.

It tends to make a person "overreact" when that particular myth is repeated.

I'm so sorry.

 

[DeeZire]

What if Jesus Christ had to choose a religion?

After investigating what was out there, I think he'd start a new one, since all Christian religious faiths are corrupt in one way or another.

If he was an open-minded individual, he might choose the Bahai faith. This faith believes in all the prophets, assuming they all get their message from the same Higher Power. Makes sense to me. I mean, it has to, because it's impossible for one Higher Power to choose one faith and disavow all the others, and it's unlikely that there are many different Higher Powers, all vying for as much humanity as they can lure into their particular brand of Hocus Pocus (capitalized because it's Divine Hocus Pocus.)

 

[scheherazade_79]

Having seen all the wars, genocides and acts of terrorism fuelled by religion, I think he'd choose to become an atheist.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

bizarre

 

[rgraham666]

There's a song about just that idea.

 

[Sir_Julian]

Would he be a rabbi? A priest? Would he operate a little storefront ministry off of MLK Jr. Boulevard in west Savannah?

For the sake of discussion, let's say he's born into this millennium instead of that other one, lives among us as an ordinary man. Inherits a carpentry business with a panel truck, etc. All modern religions are just as we know them, only Jesus' name is different to avoid confusion. Does he choose one and attempt to reform it? Does he reject them all and start one from scratch?

He would be a Jedi...

 

[Liar]

If I was Jesus, and I came back, I'd be a little weary of a religion that treated the means of torturous execution as a symbol of holiness.

What if Jesus had been hung, would we be raising nooses on top of churches?

 

[cantdog]

Gotta love the inherited panel truck, though.

Yeshua's Fine Carpentry - Custom Furniture
Table Saws are also Zen

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Jesus was Jewish. He was a Jew when he died. Bet the farm he'd be a Jew.

 

[Guest]

Gotta love the inherited panel truck, though.

Yeshua's Fine Carpentry - Custom Furniture
Table Saws are also Zen

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

He would be gentle, kind and forgiving toward those who had erred. He would help the downtrodden find their way back to life. His home would be small and simple (as Sarah suggested), but he would routinely invite others to come and visit him so that he could offer them food, love, advice and wisdom to help mend their broken hearts.

I do not think he would be of any particular religion. I think he would simply teach and practice forgiveness and love.

 

[impressive]

He would be a Jedi...

. .

 

[LordMithras]

Jesus was Jewish. He was a Jew when he died. Bet the farm he'd be a Jew.

Yes, just not an Orthodox one. I don't see him getting along with the rabbis today, just as he didn't with their ancestors.

That being said, they're less oppressive than in the past. He'd be happier with his own faith than in the past.

I see him as a Reform Jew.

 

[jackell99]

So you're saying?

We will grant that tribalism in humanity allows for any group to commit genocide on any other group for any reason; usually this reason is practical--you want their land, or money--while the declared reason is a myth created to excuse the slaughter (like, these people use the blood of innocent babies in their rituals).

You'll forgive me, however, if I tend to take any inference, even oblique ones, that Jews were Christ-killers a little personally. I rather think you'd feel the same way about a myth created to excuse atrocities on a certain group of people if your murdered relatives belonged to that tribe, and if you'd seen a number tattooed on your grandmother's arm from her time in a death camp.

It tends to make a person "overreact" when that particular myth is repeated.

Are you saying that Jesus wasn't Jewish or that wasn't handed over to the Romans by some of his own countrymen?
Granted, I was raised in a part of the country largely devoid of Jewish influence, but I read a lot and I've never heard or read that that part of the story was any more of a myth that the rest of the story.
I'm not trying to start a fight, I'm just curious. I really don't much care who killed him, nor am I even convinced he died on the cross. I always thought it was kinda silly for Christians to be pissed at the Jews for Jesus' death for a couple of reasons.
1) If he'd died of old age or drowning or in a sand storm or something we would never had heard his name to begin with.
2) If Christians believe his was a divine being and his life was predestined, then he had to die to atone for the sins of man. So the Jews who turned him over were just playing their part in a drama who's outcome had already been decided.

And no offense, but what I read so far, makes it sound almost as if you blame all Christians for the Third Reich, which is kinda like blaming all muslims for 9/11 or all pentecostals for Jim Jones or All white people for slavery. Maybe that's not the case, but that's how it came across.

 

[Guest]

And no offense, but what I read so far, makes it sound almost as if you blame all Christians for the Third Reich, which is kinda like blaming all muslims for 9/11 or all pentecostals for Jim Jones or All white people for slavery. Maybe that's not the case, but that's how it came across.

That isn't how it came across to me.