Inconvenient truths that shake our worldview
Good Friday and other old wives' tales
Today is Good Friday.
The day of Jesus' death.
In Germany, all casinos are closed, and the ban on dancing in discotheques and the like still applies in some regions.
A handful of gospels dominate the religious worldview.
Largely unknown, that meanwhile around 20 different ones have been found, sealed and buried in old clay jars in the desert sand.
If you read all the gospels, the world looks very different.
The ecclesiastical censors at that time simply selected the most willing writings that suited them best, screwed on a little or sometimes a little more and erased and of course supplemented.
This is how today's Bible came about, which unfortunately is not worth the red, noble bookmark ribbon, because it is a product of censorship.
Interesting things can be read in the lost gospels, which of course did not please the superiors.
Judas was not a traitor at all and Jesus even asked to be crucified in one gospel.
Of course, you can't tell that to children today. They were taught the opposite from the start.
Yes, you can. One should even!
Pontius Pilate
Today's theme is Good Friday. One of the main characters is Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea. This figure is usually quite neutral, sometimes almost human. Touching how he supposedly washes his hands of innocence and gives the angry mob the right to continue living with the choice between the murderer and rebel Barabas and the -from the point of view of that time- marauder and also rebel surrendered to Jesus.
Well, in the end it was his own people who then sent Jesus to the cross. Mel Gibson's Attempts at the "Passion of Christ" were accompanied by the greatest protest because he took it too far privately with his fundamental rejection of Judaism. This is also the reason why Gibson is still not allowed to play in a Marvel superhero film to this day .
Marvel boss Isaac Perlmutter, a member of the Jewish community, categorically rejects this due to Gibson's completely excessive statements in the past. Gibson's friend Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) has been trying to smooth things over for a long time, so far without success. The Old Testament "eye to eye" to count and less the New Testament idea of forgiveness and reconciliation of Jesus.
Back to Pilate. The uncomfortable truth is that here, too, historiography follows the path of stultification. The Romans were known and feared for their cruel methods of torture and execution. Those who hung on the cross - and there were many - could still be happy. Yes, that sounds absurd now, but the killing machines of the Romans really were unsurpassed in bestiality.
That means they were used to cruelty. For them it was bread daily. Without it, they would probably have lost their vast empire much sooner.
And Pilate?
The truth is, this guy was too brutal even for his own people. Yes, that's not a duck. Even for the Romans this butcher was too hard. He was deposed in 36 or 37 because of his brutality. Rome was fed up with him. There are no reliable sources for his alleged suicide two years later.
So, the next time you go to church or are invited to a church wedding and see Jesus on the cross in the ornate church, centered in front of a richly painted window, remember that there is a good chance that He volunteered to be crucified and was not betrayed by Judas. His formal executioner Pilatius was not a fair sportsman but the most brutal swine far and wide. So brutal that he was even removed from office for it.
Yes, then Happy Easter!
Leopold
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