JVC 1:1, Jesus H. Viral Christ, A Roman meme in Gaza

Jesus H. Viral Christ, A Roman meme in Gaza

JVC 1:1 (Note : My first revelation of the origins of God's message.  I did not know where it would lead.)

 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 the same bread and wine as everyone else, remember that, and remember me when you do.” and “I am your zombie lord Jesus, please say some words and pretend you are cannibals in order to score some useful heaven tickets.”  

    And the literalization isn’t limited to communion; there is also the “Asking Jesus into your heart,” bit.  As if Jesus is some little invisible goblin that you physically “invite him inside your heart”; like the very demons he is said to have cast out.  Then that act becomes some kind of metaphysical “Road to Romans: Get out of hell free” card.  As if ritualistically repeating some words can cleanse and absolve a person of real sins like forcible rape or murder.  That, as opposed to the meme of “hearing the message of Jesus and accepting it in your heart”.   Instead accepting it in your 'mind as truth', in place of your heart, and internalizing it as an inspired path by which to live a more successful life. 

    The message of Jesus clearly being the most important part of the entire religion; Forgive, be forgiven, love, be patient, be humble, be ready, learn from the parables, etc.

But what if Jesus just… arose organically, from hints of stories.  From chuckled whispers among Romans.  Children running up to Roman guards and soldiers laughing amongst themselves and asking what it is that is so funny?  Only to be met with a rowdy, "Jesus Christ". Romans who were dealing with very real, life-threatening problems at that time living among the local Israeli Jews.  Romans living there under the constant threat of messianic revolt.  Romans who were part of a broad empire and had been exposed to a vast number of other cultures.  Romans who may have regularly told the local rebels to stop expecting a messiah.  Romans telling the restless rebels; Guess what?  Your messiah already came.  He came, and you killed him.  

Here is an excerpt from:

Legions of Judea - World History Encyclopedia (https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1943/legions-of-judea/) 

Legions of Judea, Article, Donald L. Wasson, published on 16 February 2022

Formation & First Jewish Revolt

Judea came under Roman control in 63 BCE but was governed by client king's dependent on Roman support. In 6 CE, during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus (r. 27 BCE to 14 CE), it became the province of Judaea and was ruled by a Roman governor with the capital of Caesarea, located on the Mediterranean coast. The legions of Judea did not protect the East from external threats like the legions of Syria. Instead, their major challenge came internally, namely the nationalistic and religious ideals of its people. 

Normally, the Romans were tolerant of a province's religious practices; however, this was not true for the people of Judaea. The continued presence of the Romans and the strict ideals of the Jewish people were incompatible, resulting in the First Jewish Revolt in 66 CE.

    The Jewish people were a defiant, proud people, with young men and ‘would be’ leaders willing to fight back against Rome. This led to constant friction in the area of “Israel”; eventually renamed “Palestine” by later Roman authority; due to still further incompatibility and revolutionary, “messianic” behavior. The Roman influence in the area suffered this environment day by day, year by year; much like modern Israel suffers the same from Palestine.  

    Surely many ideas were tossed around about how best to quell some of this behavior. What better to quell it, than a Messiah who had already come? A Messiah killed by Jews! Not Romans. Leaving no reason to retaliate. BUT this messiah was successful anyways. This messiah saved not just the Jews, but EVERYONE!    

    (A good bit of the following is hard for me to write.  It is mostly the things that were said by the Roman's and Jews.  Mostly Jewish questions about things, and Roman answers and justifications.)    

     "How did he save EVERYONE??"

    "He was the son of God, of course. And he's a hero!  A hero who would rather die on a cross, than break the peace.  He'd rather forgive seventy times 7 times than retaliate." 

    "Why did he have to die on the cross?" The doubtful would ask,

    With the answer being cobbled quickly together directly from Jewish holy texts and the Torah, "He died on the cross as a sacrifice from his father, GOD.  JUST LIKE with ABRAHAM & ISAAC.  The FOUNDER of Israel." Of course, good God-fearing Jewish listeners really liked that part. "Now you need to have his spirit; so be a hero like your messiah and settle down. Also, slaves obey your masters." As some began to inevitably accept this, it grew. "What do you need to do? Believe! Believe that you need to settle down and be a good citizen.  Believe that you need to turn the other cheek.  Believe that you need to forgive 70x7 times.  Practice what the JEWISH MESSIAH preached!" And it grew and grew. After all, it was the messiah.  Yet the overwhelming majority would continue in its disbelief.

    "Is this Jesus even real?"

     "Of course he's real. He had a forerunner.  They did Baptisms. And he had disciples!"

    "Why would Jews kill their own messiah?"

    "He destroyed a bunch of temples wares for sale for sacrifice to other "gods".  Going on about how, 'it offended his father, God'.  The Temple vendors chose him to die and let some thieves go.  Yeah.  He cost them a lot of money.  And he was a drunk.  He turned water into wine once. And he was a little weird about washing feet.  Yeah, He washed EVERYBODY's feet. WITH HIS HAIR."

    "With his hair?"

    "Yes. Exactly, that's why they killed him. He was proud, vain, arrogant, weird, and full of himself." Which of course, describes with great accuracy, other messianic figures of that day. 

   While many claim salvation in the message of the Christ, this very well could be the one true origin story of the man/meme, Jesus Christ.  Rather than a Son of a God, Jesus Christ is a product of a plan that was never even devised. A plan that was more of an ‘off the cuff’ response to the environment, than it ever was a ‘plan’. A "meme" really. A meme so beloved, and so joked about, that it took on*^ a life of its own. A meme that lived as a developing local story among the Romans in Israel until it eventually got legs with Saul/Paul and grew into a local major religious force. A story so convoluted to meet every need of pacifying a rebel populace, that it even incorporates many local memes of ‘other’ sons of God’s.  Born on Dec. 25th; born to a virgin, performed many miracles; tempted by evil; cast out evil; and comically to any familiar with ice and ice fishing, he "walked on water".

    But despite having been born as a meme, Jesus was everything the brutal world 2000 years ago needed. The power of the pacifist and forgiveness. The strength of martyrdom. The PASSION, of the Christ. 

    I propose that Jesus never lived at all but was instead a local Roman meme. A convenient, funny, entertaining story used by local street level authority/law enforcement as a social tool to dispel sentiments and notions of rebellion.  This does not take away from whether or not the story and message of Jesus Christ is divine and/or ordained by God.

    Honestly, If you have heard of remote viewing, I feel like this message was delivered to me through something very akin to that. It's like, I kind of "remember" that this is the actual truth. I like to think of it as the universe’s historical viewing tubes. Maybe I'm descended from Roman ancestors that served in Gaza, and its genetic memory surfacing.  Memories of eternity, accessible through, and as part of, ‘God’ if you want to call it that. An accessing of the greater vibrational consciousness, that is existence. This however, is my personal path that led me to these conclusions, which through rigorous education, I find to be meeting the definition, of a hypothesis. Thus, I present it as this, in the age of science, with all manner of nonsense currently parading as truth via various “religion”; the scientifically defensible hypothesis that the biblical figure Jesus Christ is/was merely a Roman meme, "gone viral".

*^(As I wrote ‘took on’, Oprah just echoed it behind me. On TV, on her Ozempic/Mounjaro special. Lol. And as I wrote ‘Oprah’ She said, ‘Me, Oprah’. The ACTUAL God of time, space, and all that? The God of the Tao, Karma, and That gives me this support? Is the God that has revealed the truth of Jesus to me.)