Thoughts on Christmas

Christians celebrate the birth of a man who was spat on by church leaders and random idiots in the streets. A defenseless man who rode a donkey into Jerusalem to carry out a “revolution” nobody seems to understand. Contrary to secular Christmas,  his story is not a “glamorous”  red & white fairytale (at least for now).

 His advent involves a i). stable, ii). a dirty manger iii). 3 wisemen (by today’s standards, perhaps the most ridiculous intellectuals in history)  iv). a pregnant virgin,  v). poor parents etc...each one of these (along with his hypothetical miracles , if you can call them that) is a ripe ingredient for the mockery he has been subjected to over the years, generation after generation, e.g. one can easily say “Jesus Christ” thoughtlessly without consequence. He seems like a lunatic or a disrespected outcast claiming to be a king and continues to brainwash humanity since 2000 years ago.  He deserves the spiteful wrath of  intellectuals &  self-sufficient saints who can see through the propaganda.  

His gospel has been degenerated to be a message of  moral compliance/superiority/sufficiency. However at the center of this religion is an underwhelming “super hero” who befriended corrupt tax collectors, harlots, drunkards  & other weirdos. Rarely do you hear that Jesus came to save hypocrites & the immoral, and yet those are the very people he came to earth for. 

The fact that Christmas is a big holiday season across the world, makes Jesus Christ perhaps the most successful legend/ lunatic or outcast to ever “live”. His story deserves careful & critical thought by everyone & anyone. We must ask ourselves how a lunatic/legend with such poor credentials can be this successful? Not even impressive legends of Batman, super man , Hercules or the black panther have amassed as much attention, popularity & dominance like Jesus . Debates between believers & atheists alike can genuinely help,  because this is not the  kind of story that one can simply be indifferent to. On the one hand it seems like an inconvenient legend insulting our lack of moral strength, however if at all true, there are eternal consequences that one needs to reckon with. 

Merry Christmas xo

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