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Thursday, February 26, 2004
Just a Thought that's on My Mind. . .
Well, my dad's going to make me see Passion. I think I'm going to do a whole post that ponders over why Jesus Christ means so much, and if so, if his death is overstated.
Because really, think about it. Many people have died for other people, and Jesus Christ did the same, as well as dying for what he believed.
Think of the blacks. Think of soldiers in war. Think of muslims, jews, chirstians. . .any group or peoples or people that have died for their cause. Any group of people that suffered for what they believed.
I could go off on a big rant now, but we'll save it.
Needless to say, I think the centering of Jesus Christ as a symbol means something, but I think it's rather. . .zealous, ignorant, stupid (I can't really find the right word here), to remember a man that died for what he believed.
Many people have died for what they believed.
And Jesus Christ wasn't the only person beaten for his beliefs in Christianity, and nor was he the only person subjected to large amounts of pain (we all feel pain at some point in our lives), and also, nor should he just be remembered. I see what he symoblizes: I see him as a man that died for what he believed, and (if you believe he actually did heal people, blah blah blah) what he did.
Crucifixion was a common-place way of punishment back then. Christ wasn't, obviously, the only person to die like that.
I don't see the big deal really.
One man who supposedly said he can give the gift of eternal life, and died to see it done. Supposedly.
I'd die for that too. I don't see a lot of reason in living sometimes, and I'd sure like to be remembered like Jesus Christ (pff). . .
Anyway, I just don't see anything. Jesus Christ, whatever he was and is and did and has done, was still just a man. It's obvious to see this since he died.
People who were in the concentration camps suffered just as much as, if not more than, Jesus Christ.
When Nagasaki and Hiroshima were bombed, the people who suffered radiation sickness suffered just as much as, if not more than, Jesus Christ.
The people who served in the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, World War I, World War II, the War of 1812, the Spanish American war, the Vietnam war, suffered just as much as if not more than Jesus Christ.
And all these people suffered because they had to as well as for us all.
Just like Jesus Christ supposedly did.
And this is why and what I want to say.
I don't see remembering some guy and making his death seem so grand and great when there's also other people, better and more tortured, who died just the same, in the same ways, for us.
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