WHO WAS JESUS CHRIST? 

 

Jesus was not "Safe."

 

He was a threat. 

 

We have been sold a sanitized version of the story.

 

The culture loves the "Baby in the Manger."

 

It is cute. 

 

You can put it on a greeting card and feel warm and fuzzy inside.

 

But they didn't execute him because he was "nice."

 

And they didn't hunt him down because he told people to "love each other."

 

They eliminated him because he was a threat to their revenue stream.

 

He walked into the Temple, the central bank of his day, and flipped the tables.

 

He drove out the money changers.

 

He disrupted the finances of the ruling class.

 

That wasn't a "sermon."

 

That was an act of open revolt against the Establishment.

 

The Pharisees and the Romans didn't care about his theology.

 

They cared about his Influence.

 

He told the people that they didn't need the System to reach the Divine.

 

He told the poor that they were more valuable than the rich.

 

He dismantled the hierarchy of power that kept the Empire running.

 

He was a Glitch in the Matrix.

 

So the System did what the System always does to threats: It tried to silence him.

 

And when that failed, it tried to co-opt him.

 

Over 2,000 years, they turned a Revolutionary into a Mascot.

 

They traded the radical truth for a festive holiday.

 

They want you to focus on the Silent Night so you forget the Loud Truth:

 

That one man, with zero money, zero armies, and zero political office, toppled the greatest Empire on Earth using only the Truth.

 

This Christmas, stop worshipping the "safe" version.

 

Respect the dangerous one.

 

The System can handle a baby.

 

It cannot handle a free man who refuses to bow.

 

- Andre Gonsalves