Religion is as political as in any government. The Roman Catholics were once the most powerful military state in the world.. as were the Protestants in England and Span centuries ago. The question is, was Christ himself a politician for starting a new religion?

The Written Word

Most, if not all, of the literary works of the 4 gospels were written decades, and some a century after the crucifixion of Christ. There could have been written accounts of Christ’s actual words, not surviving, but most all accounts are paraphrased by either oral tradition or by songs of praise. There were Roman historians who wrote about the existence of Christ as an outside source (1). At some point, almost 100 years later, writers and scribes created a narrative of the identity of who Christ was and what he represented. These early writings were drafted to form a new religion by creating doctrines to a core belief called Christianity. These early writings would create new doctrines for offshoot churches who would write/create, similar to, added too, or a copy of.. thus creating what is today the 4 gospels unique to each other. So, after the first century, there were many Christian churches forming an identity. In the 4th century, all these works were canonized into one book called a “bible” meaning a book. But again, was Christ the author of this new organization or were those who created the organization the authors of Christ?

The writings about Christ, his birth, life and mission; identifies him as a loving, caring, and forgiving mortal man, but as a God at the same time. This moral God shows mercy, healing and openness to all people, of any religion, of that time in the first century. This mortal God, by written accounts, despised organized religions as corrupted, immoral, and sinful, all opposed to the new order of freedom and forgiveness he was offering. Christ’s resentment to organized religion is the most outstanding negative, at times angered, nature exposed by the early writers of Christ. Christ had to fear his new order because he was going against existing establishments who wanted to have him executed. By the very nature of establishing a new religion, Christ became a Politian. But, was Christ really a Politician? Or, were those who wrote about him politicizing his mission to build a new church?

When I read the 4 gospels, I pick up on two identities of Christ. Even though there are no word for word accounts of what Christ actually said, Christ did have a huge impact on those who supported him and followed him. His message resonated for decades after his crucifixion… and came back to life in literary works later. Those who created the early literary works, we don’t know who the authors were; portray a man who wanted followers to love God for what he represented. There is a huge difference for a person to choose to follow Christ for what he offered and represented then to be forced to follow him by fear and damnation. One identity I pick up on is the loving and caring mortal man who loved mankind as much or more than his own life. The other personality I pick up on is the early writers politicizing the identity of this man in order to create a new religion by fear. The best example is of hell and brimstone passages if you do not join this new institution. This form of writing is in direct contrast to a man who is of love and forgiveness… almost to the point on contradicting of the word “forgiveness”, in other words, a man who wants a follower to love him by choice only. The other side of this Christ wants followers to fear him into submission or to be exiled from eternal life if they don’t. The fear tactic of the early writers would cement a new congregation based on both fear and that of humility and love.

Could A Non-Political God Exist?

Non-traditionalist believes in a choice to love a Christian God, not out of damnation or expulsion by fear, but out of thankfulness to be forgiven, to be loved, and to exist beyond death. Many beliefs over human history have gods of the earth, sky, war, procreation and peace. A Simplified God of just love; love, one word that says 10,000 words over 10,000 years. A new belief construct of unconditional love that has no government attached to it, no organization to subvert control over others or a doctrine to judge obedience and absolutely NO politics. There would be no buildings to build, no salaries to fund, and no forced handouts that only leads to corruption and power. A secular “Red Cross” to fund and support only those in need, would serve the entire community of any belief construct, the bedrock of Christianity.

(1) No Roman historians were present to witness the life of Jesus, as they wrote about him or his followers decades later. The primary Roman historians who mentioned Jesus or early Christians were Tacitus (ca. 56–120 AD) and Suetonius (ca. 69–122 AD), who wrote about him in the early second century. Another relevant source, though not Roman, was the first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Josephus did not witness Jesus in life. He was born in 37 AD, which was several years after Jesus’s crucifixion, generally estimated to have occurred between 30 and 33 AD.