Yeah, it’s kind of weird.
Checking out books at the library is kind of weird. I want to say something to the librarians like, no really, I’m just doing research, I don’t really believe that this guy rose from the dead after three days, really I don’t.
It’s also weird because, the more I look into it the more I really, really like Jesus as a historical figure. I mean, how many of our modern-day heroes are crazy nuts who walk around preaching to day laborers and end up getting hung to death in their underwear? Jesus was one nutty dude–it takes a special kind of person to proclaim themselves the Messiah–and the fact that a whole religion sprouted out of the things he said and did is nothing short of, well, miraculous.
It’s a little early to say that I’ve been converted by own writing, but I have to admit that I find Jesus’s whole nonviolent approach to changing the world quite compelling. It’s too bad most Christians don’t know the first thing about their own Lord and Savior.
It was Gandhi who quipped:
“The only people on earth who do not see Christ and His teachings as nonviolent are Christians.”