Jesus is Stupid

Honestly Jesus, what were you thinking? Here God puts you on earth and fills you with all His God-ness in your Man-ness and tells you to go save the world, and what have you done? I'm looking back two millenniums from your life, looking at all the hunger, disease, and suffering that's alive and well and wondering where you went oh so wrong.

First off, you show up on earth full of those omnipotent abilities and the best you can do a conjure up a few magic tricks. Sure, liven up the party by turning the water to wine. Feed your hungry followers who forgot to pack lunch. All cool. But seriously, there are 35,000 children who will starve to death TODAY in 2008 because they don't have bread and clean water. What did you do about that Jesus when you had the chance? You could have rained down manna from heaven. You could have created a perpetual spring of life in the desert. But no, all we got were a few parlor tricks.

And the healing? I'm sure it was a nice way to show off when some poor blind beggar happened to grab hold of you, but what have you done for countless millions who still suffer from all kinds of afflictions? Cancer, AIDS, mental illness, paralysis, deafness, blindness, lameness, even our modern medicine (which we came up with without YOUR help thank you very much) has no answers to these problems. Here you had a chance to cure all the sick, to alleviate all suffering, but nope, you'd rather join the fun and hang on a cross.

Then there's this "kingdom" we hear so much about. Man, (or God?) you could have ruled! Literally! All earthly power was yours for the taking! What? Didn't want the hassle of casting blindness on some Roman stooges? Didn't want to call down some angels from heaven to smite your enemies and establish your throne? Clearly, this was the biggest oversight of your "ministry". Twelve guys in the desert is hardly what I'd call a "kingdom".

And think of all the good you could have done. It's been 2000 years and we still haven't rooted all the corruption out of government. You would have been good and just and set all disputes to rights, vanquished all your enemies, made permanent peace on earth. Wasn't that one of your platforms? I'm sorry to say, since you left there hasn't been a whole lot of peace on your account.

Ok, maybe I understand. You're supposed to be all about faith and stuff right? You want people to believe in you so they can go to heaven right? That's what they say on TV anyway. Well if you wanted people to believe in you so badly, you might have put on a better show. Maybe give us a SIGN or something that no one could dispute. Maybe, I dunno, jump off the temple without a bungie cord and live. Don't get me wrong, the resurrection was cool an all. I like the idea, let the bad guys kill and then come back to life. But you screwed it up when you came out of the tomb. Sure your twelve homeless followers got to see you, but who was going to believe them? Where was the press conference? Where was the parade? You should have walked into Herod's court and gave him the finger. You should have showed Pilate who he dared to kill. But nope, you just stuck to your parlor tricks and ragtag band of crazies.

Satan himself offered you all these things and you turned him down. Instead, you told us the way to feed the hungry and heal the sick is to give them bread and a cup of cold water, and offer to pay for their hospital bills. You told us the way to conquer your enemies is to love them. Not to resist them when they would strike you down, but rather stand up, turn your cheek, and show them your humanity. You told us the way to win over an unbelieving world is to demonstrate faith through love. You told us to follow you, to live like you lived, feeding and healing and loving, and die like you died, hanging on a cross as a testimony of sacrificial love to a world gone mad. And you left this revolutionary new way in the hands of a few crazies with no money or fame or power to speak of.

What are you stupid?