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Hi, I'm a 17 year old interested in programming. I come to this website in the hopes of me being able to stick to a religion.

What narrative would Romans want to promote to conform to their perception at that time? They maintained dominance/ wealth through fear and control. A man taught them they did not have to operate out of fear, toiling and paying taxes, living in poverty. Instead, he taught they could act out of love of self, others and (what is called) God, and that God is love. He had gathered an immense following. Jesus very clearly said we are the same as him, equally loved, equally capable of performing (what is called) miracles. However, he was not found in his tomb and was seen alive after death. Today, there are tens of thousands of (what are called) near death experiences. There are accounts of brain tumors disappearing. People have been clinically dead, no pulse, and began to breath again. Don Piper was beyond recognition in a body bag, for 90 minutes (medically documented). They talk about what they saw/ felt, where they were during that period of zero brain activity. I was in ICU after Dr. punctured my colon. I saw a flat line on a monitor begin to show brain wave activity, among other impossibilities. There is no medical team or pharmaceutical company who will study these outliers, p values, anomalies, "miracles." These entities are paid through medical cures and procedures. What financial benefit would that bring them? Likewise with controlled news media. Headlines are fear based. You won't see these miraculous events discussed, studied, marveled at because they must remain in the category of 'fringe,' with no scientific credibility, no potential for regulation or financial gain. Back to Jesus. Roman authorities had a choice. Given that they had to maintain control (what they called the peace), and collect the wealth... They could pursue leads, interrogate Jesus' associates who saw him post death, find him and recreate the immense unrest, various groups fighting each other in the streets, attempt to crucify him again. This would mean acknowledgement that he came back to life, superceding their narrative of control and fear. It would mean dealing with yet another account of his miracles. They could attempt to find and kill him quietly, but being capable of miracles, what could he do to them? Worse, what if he could teach the masses these things? But they could perpetuate the narrative that we are separate, born of man, that Jesus was not like us, and therefore not capable of miracles. They could say God's one and only son was killed, and came in the form of an apparition to say "All is Well." You can avoid this by remaining under Roman rule (what they said was also God's rule). This narrative keeps order, shows us our place in group's hierarchy, satisfying Romans while acknowledging Jesus' specialness for Jews. So many groups were in opposition at Jesus' trial. Pilate did not want blood on his hands. He said his role was keeping peace. So Roman soldiers went before the masses, and said - He is a law breaker by advocating not paying taxes, claiming to be the son of God, healing on the Sabbath, claiming he could level and raise the temple in 3 days. So they go before his supporters and say..if you support him, you oppose the law. Law says we crucify. Who among you and your families will stand here with him and die for these beliefs? None were brave enough to stand with him, surround him, protect him. They feared death, torture, etc. of their friends, family, children. In other words... Regardless of Jesus' knowledge that God = love, love has immense power especially in large numbers, and that you can choose this and conquer man's fear through this, even perform miracles in choosing this way...they still chose fear. Even after his repeated demonstration of miracles, his most true friends, family, supporters did not translate this into reality. The takeaway is that we still have a choice. What would have happened if they had chosen to believe him? Rather than fist fighting, arguing, crying, placing trust on fear...could they have trusted Love/ God? Would they all have been murdered? And then was it possible that act by the masses would have spared them through a powerful, otherworldly energetic force? A miracle that would spare 475 more years of fearful Roman oppression/ control? And if you feel the story was all made up, are we nonetheless capable of understanding the difference - between trust in mankind's global illusion of fear and trust in God as an infinite power/ energy of unified Love? There is a forever connection between humankind, this immense energy of love called God, and our reality. Physics is beginning to get it. When you place your trust in this energy/ force/ God, it can then place trust in you. This shared trust then works to shape reality. This is what is meant by God working through you. You also have discernment that prevents you from running alone, headlong into a clearly dangerous situation. The individual cannot save a nation. The polpulace, placing its trust on God energy/ love, acts together creating powerful combined energies/ light/ forces unseen to most, and the people void of that light/ energy/ force simply don't allow functioning of their system. If your brain cells did not act together, lacking neurons to fire the reaction, they would not communicate and not serve the whole. The brain would become inactive, and that cellular separation causes failure of the entire system. In physical reality for example, N. Korea. That system is failing steadily since 1953. Fear, isolation, oppression, separation is causing unintegrated parts to wither in place. The population is moving into starvation and disease. Currently most of the military has worms/ parasites, and is rapidly encroaching upon the capital. It is possible to not adhere to fear. It is possible to envision a world as one nation in connection, acting in one truth, while respecting each other's unique perspectives. All nations now are capable of destroying the others. Fear keeps eyes on the buttons. It is our house and we are all brothers. We do not have the authority to decide who dies and lives. Our souls continue; energy cannot be destroyed, it just attracts to like energy and continues.

Hi, as most religion is little more than programming, your hopes might well be realised. 😀

On and off, I have been getting back to graphic novels. They can be really good on Kindle, where you can just tap any picture twice and it then fills the whole screen. A side swipe will take you onto the next picture. And so on. Looking again at "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" where some guy, his car boot stacked with drugs and booze, roars off to pursue the American Dream! The graphics are superb, capturing the strident and nightmarish theme. Another I like is a Sherlock Holmes story, "The Sign of Four" which was ridiculously cheap on Kindle, about the price of a cup of coffee at McDonald's. Just to mention a quote found right at the beginning of the Fear & Loathing novel, buried in a picture of the "hero" who is draped in Old Glory..... "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" (Samuel Johnson) Which made me remember another quote, from Shakespeare:- "No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity..... . . . But I know none, and therefore am no beast." Time to go.