Thanks Baby Jesus

One thing that people often forget about the story behind Christmas is that Mary and Joseph could not have been of more humble origins. In the Christian tradition, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, was born so impoverished that the only place available for Him to be born was in a barn. So it followed that He was born to poor teenage parents out of wedlock, lived a life of purpose and compassion, only to be betrayed then tortured to death. If there is any message to this story it is that God sent His son to live a life as wrought with pain and suffering as any human has had to endure, and it didn't break his love of humanity. As with all the greats in human history, as soon as they have died, every self-righteous power whore attempts to invoke their name to justify their own ends; and thus do we have people like GW calling himself a Christian. During the stirring rendition of Silent Night at the Christ Mass I attended this evening it came into my mind that perhaps the reason that Christianity has proven so popular is the universal appeal of redemption. Every day mankind moves closer and closer to the precipice from whence we may never return, yet we still yearn for the possibility that something greater than ourselves will save us. If we can take the story of Jesus just as it is presented to us in the Bible, it would not be inconsistent to view it as a lesson from God telling us all that even the seemingly helpless hold immeasurable potential to save us from our own wickedness. So the moral of the story is: we need to have faith in ourselves to deliver us from evil, just as Christ did some 2000 years ago.