Belief.

We are on the eve of a magical day for some, one of gathering and remembering the solstice for others. Many of faith in a god will gather tonight to celebrate the birth of his mortal son, jesus.
Who is this guy? A prophet? A magician? A conglomerate of pagan and non pagan deities? The first individual whom stuck out from the herd, had a simple but effective plan to bring us all together with love?
I'm going with the latter.
ok, i have zero belief in any gods. this is how i feel and i looked deep and far to come to this conclusion. BUT, i do believe that a person who later became 'jesus' did exist. I think he was a jewish slave who was building the pyramids. he probably didn't dig on how he and his fellow slaves were being treated and started spreading the word. He was killed for it. the end. years later, scholars probably picked up on this story and tried to incorporate it into a tome.
that's what i read anyway.
i can say that i didn't read the bible BUT i'm sure that it is a guide to life with lots of action and brutality. if one was to take the lessons from a bible, they could probably deduce that a) we were pretty harsh to each other and b) you can lead a pretty honest, giving and happy life.
i'm sure that's all this jesus figure/man wanted: for all of us to put aside our differences and evolve into a better society. think of him as the first one to have a utopian vision or something like that.
i have to say that i agree with that. through my recovery, i have been mashing together lots of different ideas and theories to expand upon and discard. i can say that the idea that some guy was trying to unite everyone with love and kindness waaaayyyy back in the day is pretty cool. he must've had a ton of faith in his fellow man to even think of throwing these things around.
anyway, this atheist has to finish wrapping gifts and i have to get ready for visits and such.
Happy winter solstice to all.
Merry Christmas everyone.