JESUS AND PLEASURE - AN EVIL MAN WANTS PEOPLE TO MAKE THEMSELVES UNHAPPY
An evil man necessarily wants to make some people unhappy and Jesus was no
exception. But let us move away from this general observation and get down to
specifics.
Jesus said that the most important commandment was the one to love God with all
our power. The next, love of neighbour as oneself, was the next most important
and was said to be like it for loving your neighbour to please God is really
just loving God with all your power or loving God alone. In Christianity, people
don’t matter in themselves. This is a callous religion.
Christianity teaches that love is not feeling affection but is sacrifice for if
you won’t sacrifice you prefer your pleasure to the person. Jesus taught that
too. If love is not feeling but sacrifice then love is action. The more you hate
the person you help the better for hate makes sure that you are devoted to their
good when you do good for them for its own sake and not because of your
feelings.
Jesus liked strong drink and his food. He frequented parties and fancy dinners.
He told the apostles that he wanted them to be happy (John 16:24). But love is
sacrifice for when you help others because you want to you are using them for
you are doing it because you want to and not for them. Jesus came out against
using others that way in his Sermon on the Mount. The harder life is then the
better. To refuse to love as much as possible is to refuse to love at all. He
commanded that we love God with all that is in us. Yet he went against and
preached against these very principles when he felt like it. Popularity was what
he sought. If Jesus had been the Son of God he would have been an ascetic who
willed to hate people with all the emotional strength in him so that he could
make the smallest deed of kindness to them a massive sacrifice of love. Feeling
hate and willing evil are two separate things and the former is only sinful when
it is not done for the sake of sacrifice. Satan stands for happiness while God
stands for the misery of love.
Even if Jesus were God he would have had to torment himself in order to harm
himself for others.
Jesus’ disciples did not fast and John’s did. Jesus explained that he would not
let his own do that for they had him with them meaning that it was a time for
rejoicing (Mark 2). He remarked that you do not put patches from new things unto
old. And he said that his own disciples should wait until he was out of the
world before fasting. Fasting was done to discipline the body. Jesus is
forbidding his apostles to do that. Perhaps he thought that fasting was not
about discipline but about pain for the sake of pain. If it was party-time, as
he said, then after his death should be a bigger party for he is now with God
and better at helping us than ever. When Jesus said that now was the time for
celebrating he had no intention of surviving death or rising from the dead at
that time. He did not even believe in life after death.
Christians tell us about the terrible things that happen in life being part of
God’s good plan in other words, evil is used to bring good out of it. Jesus
himself dismissed this reasoning totally when he said that we must expect him
back any moment and be always ready. Obviously, Jesus thought he could come back
soon and was wrong for nobody in their right mind keeps expecting a helicopter
to arrive when it was to come last week and that is only days and not centuries.
But anyway the point is, if Jesus can come back now it is a sin to say that this
accident or that person getting terminally ill has a purpose for you are
supposed to act as if you are not sure what is going to happen in the next few
minutes and that the world could end and Jesus appear. This would make life hell
for anybody who believes in his God for they will have to act as if God is good
and has no purpose for suffering. Cruelty like this is rare and free will is no
excuse for it for there is no such thing and it does not need to be programmed
to make evil possible.
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The WWW
Kooks and Quacks of the Roman Empire by Richard Carrier
www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/kooks.html
THIS SITE ARGUES THAT JESUS WAS EVIL AND WAS NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE
www.nobeliefs.com/jesus.htm