Jesus H. Viral Christ, A Roman meme in Gaza
The Jesus as a Roman meme Hypothesis. “Jesus Christ”; A fitting way to start such a discussion. World renowned under many titles, “Savior”, “Son of God”, “Lamb of God”, “The Messiah”, “the human form part of the ‘Trinity’ of the ‘living’ God”, and, ironically, a common statement of shock, awe, surprise, and disbelief. An estimated 2.3 billion people, the world over, claim to follow Jesus as the figure of foremost prominence in the “Christian” religion. But what if Jesus never existed? Not as a person anyway? Would that change the power of the message? Certainly, it would make it easier to take “inviting him into your heart” and “partaking of his flesh”, ahem, a little easier to swallow. But on top of Jesus maybe having never actually existed, is the problem with the literalization of so many parts of that Jesus message, which can be much more clearly understood, as metaphor. Communion for example, with communion being a tossup between Jesus saying “Hey, I’m made out of