My personal belief is that all of it started with good intentions. A woman had a hallucinogenic vision that her son would be born of a god. People didn't believe it. A few did.
That son was born being told he was special and that big things were expected of him. People/followers gave him food and shelter wherever he went and he had an easy job as a shepherd. This gave him time to think and to preach some ideas about kindness and compassion to the sick that went against the status quo at the time. His followers exploded, since everyone has a sick relative somewhere. Stories and rumors started circulating about him to places he had never visited.
Some of these stories challenged the status quo. When he goes to one of these towns they arrest him from crimes that are greater than his actual influence. People who have witnessed his kindness to the sick preach of his miracles. Maybe even he begins to believe his own myth. His execution takes place and as his importance swells, his followers come to think of it all as some kind of divine plan -- because why would such a horrible thing happen to such a nice person?
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u/tomatoaway Apr 27 '22
My personal belief is that all of it started with good intentions. A woman had a hallucinogenic vision that her son would be born of a god. People didn't believe it. A few did.
That son was born being told he was special and that big things were expected of him. People/followers gave him food and shelter wherever he went and he had an easy job as a shepherd. This gave him time to think and to preach some ideas about kindness and compassion to the sick that went against the status quo at the time. His followers exploded, since everyone has a sick relative somewhere. Stories and rumors started circulating about him to places he had never visited.
Some of these stories challenged the status quo. When he goes to one of these towns they arrest him from crimes that are greater than his actual influence. People who have witnessed his kindness to the sick preach of his miracles. Maybe even he begins to believe his own myth. His execution takes place and as his importance swells, his followers come to think of it all as some kind of divine plan -- because why would such a horrible thing happen to such a nice person?