Who Made Who?

As I was reading chapter five I came across this particular quote which is very interesting to analyze. It is a completely new perspective on the Gospel that even while studying las year I failed to see. "The visitor from outer space made a gift to Earth of a new Gospel. In it, Jesus really was a nobody, and a pain in the neck to a lot of people with better connections than he had. He still got to say all the lovely and puzzling things he said in the other Gospels. So the people amused themselves one day by nailing him to a cross and planting the cross in the ground. There couldn't possibly be any repercussions, the lynchers thought. The reader would have to think that, too, since the new Gospel hammered home again and again what a nobody Jesus was. And then, just before the nobody died, the heavens opened up, and there was thunder and lightning. The voice of God came crashing down." (p.39)

This view of life is somewhat ironical and from a very detached point since Tralfamadorians and Billy were able to travel or see the fourth dimension freely death was no longer something to fear. The eternity of those moments was all that mattered so people were eternal and thus they don't require the salvation that is given by our religion. This reminded me of an episode in Cowboy Bebop which dealt with religion and God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acW-axefwaM

In this video we see the most relevant point of the episode which says that people created God. According to it we did this to find hope, a shred of light in such a hostile environment we have created for ourselves. This light is death, the moment we are freed from this world. If we were good during our lives then we should go to heaven and enjoy eternal peace.

Certain patterns of or society are seen in the Bible that suggest some of the corruption of our society stained the Bible to some extent. We see these continue to repeat themselves on our society. The two who died in such a painful way beside Jesus were a side story and not given much importance. Jesus on the other hand, was the center of attention. Similarly when a king dies the entire kingdom he rules mourns it but when a peasant father to many dies it is barely noticed.

All death should be something that makes us sad yet it rarely happens when it is people who don't have connections. This sort of corruption from our society that has become part of the image of God is usable as proof that we were the ones that created God. We tried to make him and what he did perfect from our standards but some of our society fused with that Utopian ideal and caused this.

Even if we started to think like creationists, and decided God made us all then what would be the divine logic behind making a situation that can be interpreted in such a way? Only those who wrote the Gospels could be able to explain such a situation. If God truly were as righteous as the Bible continually says then why did he show such anger when his son was killed if all Jesus taught about was forgiveness? Only God know.