Last saturday I listened to a radio show where a woman discussed Jesus Christ. Her main thesis was that he was not at all the loving and caring person we think of him to be, but rather a self-centric hypocrite very much similar to modern day sect leaders and opressors. By picking passages from the bible where Jesus actually seemed to use different techniques of opression (such as aggressive behaviour, making his followers feel stupid and accusing them of lack of faith, saying one thing one day and then saying another thing another day and so on) she painted a quite convincing picture of a rather unpleasant man, far from the loving Christ we are used to. The most interesting part was the fact that she actually used the bible, citing passages that the church tend to avoid.
Even though I am not a man of faith - I rather see myself as an agnostic - I still feel awkward rejecting Jesus completely. This is probably because I am an integrated part of a society and culture based on the christian faith - it is somehow a part of who I am as a cultural beeing. But I think that the arguments in the radio program was quite convincing, and if I was able to see this from a non-biased (culturally) view, I would probably reject christianity. Or would I? Now, as a cog in the western culture based on christianity, it is not that easy. But maybe things will become clearer over time, when I have been able to contemplate this.
But as I said earlier, in faith I am more of an agnostic - even though I am culturally christian. I think that all human interpretations of God is faulty, since we don't have the capabilities to comprehend something that is so out of our league. It is as if insects tried to comprehend something like the meaning of Einstein's teachings, they could never ever grasp the concept.
