Jesus, Son of A Carpenter

In Nazareth around 8 B.C., a boy was born to a carpenter and his betrothed wife, who was supposedly a virgin at conception and according Catholic teachings, remained a virgin all her life, even after the birth of Jesus, despite the bible's express evidence that Mary indeed gave birth to other children. If you read your bible, those will be the same guys Jesus said were not his brothers when his mother brought them to see him. According to Jesus, all of mankind were his brothers. If that sounds profound to you, I suggest you do a quick doubletake. It spells delusions to me.

A little research shows that the first cannonical Gospel written was that of Mark around AD 65-70. Refer to my first sentence and do the quick math. That was roughly 60 years after the birth of Jesus. Jesus would have been dead about 30 years by then and the disciples were struggling to fight paganism which cited fantastic occurencies to support their theories, including the virgin birth of their pagan gods. How could Christianity compete if they said Jesus was born of a mere mortal carpenter?

Moreover, the gospels were written for those of non-Jewish descent, that is Gentiles who had no knowledge of Isaiah's original Hebrew writings and therefore had no knowledge of the distortions that followed erroneous translation from Hebrew to Greek. There is a saying that "One is never appreciated at home." Jesus came to understand this first hand when he was totally rejected in Nazareth after he returned from his mysterious 18 year sojourn. Why was he rejected? Let's try a small social experiment.

Remember the 1997 movie Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion? If you don't, here's the world's shortest synopsis: the two friends conspire to lie at their reunion that they invented Sticky Notes. Now, take a trip home and tell your friends and neighbors that you invented the camera technology in cell phones. If they do not hang you at the town square, they might commit you for your own safety. Repeat the same exercise elsewhere... say at a bar in Connecticut if you come from Buffallo. Those suckers there will have no reason to doubt you. If anything, they will crowd closer in hopes of more booze. But the main reason to believe you is that they don't know you are the son of a struggling carpenter. They haven't heard you fantasizing about ruling the world some day. They don't know that they are in for the con that would last for centuries.

Why did Jesus then, take it upon himself to perpetuate the myth that he was? You'll be surprised to know that it was not merely for selfish reasons. He had a good mission that he executed quite badly, albeit with a touch of genius.

I'll get into that next...

Madd Shame