The Quiet Revolutionary! By Alfred N.Muggins

28/10/24
Alfred was searching for something interesting or pleasant to watch on TV, and lo and behold he stumbled upon a film ‘Son of God’, which was a modern dramatization of the story of Jesus. As there was so much awful news of hatred, fear, death and destruction coming from the ‘Holy Land’, particularly in the last horrific year, he thought it might be nice to go back in time to a time when the area had also been in some unease, and under occupation, but perhaps not under such a blanket of missile attacks, local persecutions, and superpower politics.
They portrayed him, and encouraged him to be a messiah – but what was he really, historically?
He didn’t want to be a King, clearly he avoided becoming the leader of an open political revolution, although Judas and many others might have wanted him to be that. Perhaps God did indeed have another purpose for him?

Alfred thought it might be nice/interesting or even confusing to do a story/writing of some kind following partly the basic story of Jesus – but not from the perspective of a later Christian Establishment.

It could view the quiet revolutionary as a real counterbalance to the misuse of authority and power by authorities past present and futuristic.
Jesus might be unassuming, capable, clever, witty, and constructive.

In an establishment where the Jewish ruling class and religious hierarchy have to protect their wealth and interests, and the Romans could take it all away if they felt threatened. It needed to be a fine balancing act to prevent too much rocking of the boat, so to speak.
Jesus’ arrival rocked the boat just a little too much for the ruling groups and the religious hierarchy. They wanted to get rid of him, conveniently.

Set in classic Palestine, how Jesus seems to play it so well to improve life for the people, without being silenced. (options of worldly power/politics, or avoiding power, subtly influencing.)
He softens the religious teaching, less hardline, seeking to serve his people, making their lives easier.

Muggins thinks it is high time this overreported and much discussed period and place was once more resurrected, because although they made a couple of musicals about it in the seventies, ie. Godspell, and Jesus Christ Superstar, and countless religious wars and arguments between the religious sects in years gone by, and even today, it may be time for another reanalysis of Jesus, what he probably was, and what he could have been etc.

    He doesn’t think Jesus would have been much impressed by the new Holy Wars of today: Superpower America, filled with ostensible Christians but ignoring his teachings and sparking colonial/resettlement wars all over the middle east, using its rather warlike,(and warmongering) proxy Israel. (Now I know the question some of you would like to ask is ‘Is Israel real?’ or has it just been invented, or reinvented, (or reignited?) 

What we do know is that Jesus wasn’t too fond of moneylenders, particularly those who lent for profit, (so that counts out half of the US economy for a start!) 
What if Jesus reappeared today in modern Palestine. 
Would the Israelis let him go to the wailing wall? Or the Al Aqsa Mosque? would he be recognized as a Jew, even as a time traveler without a passport? Would they accept his Aramaic language, instead of Hebrew. 
Of course the ‘traditional Jewish hierarchies of the time did not accept Jesus as their Messiah, or think much of his revision of Moses’ harsh teachings. 

Would he find Netanyahu’s protestations of innocence and moral superiority in the conducting of large scale missile and drone operations in heavily populated areas where there are (or were?) children (and women!)acceptable. 
Would he give his pennies to the hungry refugee and the medical charities, or would he prefer to fund the decimation of all resistance forces, in a land where wholescale removal of people has sometimes been practiced.