May 7th, 2008
Jesus of the day: "Führe mich, oh Herr"
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The more my guests know about Christianity, the more serious my thoughts get, I guess. So while today was another pleasant day, I can't help but go to bed with a gloomy feeling.
Two of my guests from today knew a lot. They are protestant and while they radiated a huge amount of very positive energy, they left me feeling rather unsettled.
The one thing I don't get in christianity is the obsession with suffering, pain and with sin. Why would anyone living in a country like Germany today want to be immersed in a religion that is based on suffering, pain and sin? Being rewarded after death is certainly a nice thing, if it happens, but does that mean I have to wait for a good and painless life? What if I happen to have one?
Why would Jesus have to symbolize the suffering in the world? Why not the cure of the suffering? After all, he cured the sick, woke the dead and fed the hungry - according to the gospels? For me, he should be the one that stands for beauty and piece and a life without suffering, while mankind itself stands for the suffering. As I understand it, the idea is not that Jesus caused the suffering. Mankind chose not to accept his offering of a world without suffering.
I'm doing a coaching in leadership at the moment and there I learn that I can only change myself, that whatever I think are just my thoughts and that these thoughts have a tendency to manifest themselves. So if we humans experience war and murder and injustice, it's because of ourselves. I find that reasonable. Jealousy and greed are basic components of human nature that might have been very useful when we were living in caves. Unfortunately we developed to rapidly that now the cavemen are living in cities, wearing shrits and ties and practising pilates. Our minds and our nature has not developed in the same pace.
But I'm wandering off here, as usual. To come back to the subject, I wouldn't connect any of what is happening to God or Jesus and I would not connect Jesus to suffering.
I connect Jesus with "taking responsibility" and "being persistent". I shall dwell on that point later.
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