First of all I have to tell you that I'm writing a book, in fact it's a novel, in fact it's an adventure novel.
See, I got tired of all of the stories where the hero starts out great and ends up being the baddest killer of all. There's so many of those, and so many movies of that, and I really got tired of it. I wanted to write a story where the hero maintains his ideals, sort of like Gandhi, or Martin Luther King. Oh, and where he doesn't get assassinated or crucified.
In my book I have Jesus Christ appearing several times to bring comfort and make suggestions to the “hero”. I have been told that certain people will object to his presence, And even that my book will be unpublishable if I have Jesus in it.
Since this is a site that seems to have a whole lot of open-minded people on it, religious and not, I thought I'd throw this out and see what happens. Please follow me below the squiggle, and if you don't mind, I'd like you to read my diary to the end, so that you get the full picture. Don't worry, it's not very long.
I’m going to tell you a story. Every so often, when I went to play music, Jesus would appear, and the next thing that would happen is that I would start asking myself:
“Am I doing the right thing? Am I on the right path? Am I playing the right instrument? This is an instrument from India, a pagan instrument, am I allowed to play it?” And so on and so forth. This continued for a very long time. It was really very unpleasant.
A few years ago, the same thing happened; Jesus appeared, and I braced myself for all the doubts that I was sure would follow. Then something very unusual happened.
Jesus smiled at me, shook his head, and said “You’ve got it all wrong. Let me explain exactly how it works; if it’s got LOVE, I am there.”
I thought for a minute, then asked him:
“It’s that simple? Is there complicated stuff, like eating fish on Fridays, or being some particular brand of “Christian” or something?”
“Nope” he said, “ Love is all you need. If you have pure love, you can do anything you want, as long as you don’t harm other people.”
At that moment, I realized that I could finally accept Jesus Christ and have him come into my heart.
Now maybe I should explain that my heart is sort of like a neighborhood bar; everybody hangs out there. Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, they all hang out in my heart, and they were all pleased to see Christ arrive. What was even better was that he was very happy to be there. Hey, I can only tell you how I feel, you know? But I know one thing, and that is that nobody has a monopoly on Jesus, that he is more than willing to come into the heart of anybody who returns his love and accepts him, even a wretch like me with a heart like a neighborhood bar filled with various prophets, all of whom get along fine in there.
Modern religion has polarized people so much, that some people who call themselves Christians hate not only people of other religions, but even other Christians of different denominations. Once they used to burn them at the stake; thank God that the church is not strong enough to do that anymore. In fact, thank God that any religion is not strong enough to do that anymore, to kill people because they don’t have brand loyalty to their particular brand of religion.
And to people who are afraid that my book will not be publishable because I include Jesus in it as a great spiritual teacher, as well as other spiritual teachers, I have to say that I will not be like St. Peter, and renounce Jesus 3 times before the cock crows. Christianists will not take my Jesus away from me.
Finally, let me emphasize that I totally agree with freedom from religion as well as freedom of religion. I’m not interested in converting or proselytizing, I’m just trying to explain this strange thing that happened to me. I feel like I did an end run around a lot of bishops and ministers, and made a touchdown in a totally unorthodox way, and you know, I just don’t care. I don’t need any pope, minister, guru, mullah, or rabbi to support or deny this message.
Oh, and here’s the latest, channeled from Jesus Christ himself, speaking from my heart:
“I’m Jesus Christ, and I approve of this message.”
Muhammad, Buddha, and all the others all agree.
So is this book publishable? I mean, Harry Potter got condemned by christianists, and still enjoyed enormous success, so, apart from the quality of my writing, I think my book has a chance of being published. What do you think?
Thank you for reading this, and have a nice day.