Walk On Podcast Episode 71 : Jesus Fucking Christ!!
When I was doing research for this episode I found the phrase “activism the0logy” which mirrors the sentiment/mission statement buzzword that I follow, which is “sacred activism”. Apparently, there are Christian-specific activists following the plight-of-poverty-centered teachings of Jesus Fucking Christ. Thank God.
For me, my spirituality and politics are inherently entwined. The more I listened to experiences outside of my own, the more I unpacked the wounds within me and realized they could be traced back to systemic sources, the more awakened I became. Likewise, the more I connected with source consciousness, the more I listened to my intuition, the more in touch with All That Is I was, the more it brought me back to the awareness of the necessity of systemic change. How people can spiritually bypass human suffering is beyond me. A lack of empathy, an overabundance of privilege, an egoic clinging to power, I guess.
I have always loved the figure of Jesus. As a kid I loved the Christmas story, the barn, the manger, the star, the virgin birth, all that. I have always been drawn to any passionate, purpose-driven, world changer (Soujourner Truth, Dr. Maya Angelou, Malcolm X—and before I unpacked my indoctrination into colonialism Patrick Henry and TJ). Jesus was the first activist I loved. I loved hearing about him. How he fought for the underdog, how he loved the people no one else would love. I thought maybe he would love me, too, I felt like he did. Even when I was in my questioning/agnostic and eventually reactionary atheistic phase, Jesus still resonated with me.
Years later, while meditating, after spending several years connecting with what I call artistic ancestors and several months of experimentation with transcendental meditation and terrestrial higher dimensional beings, I got the call to connect with Jesus. I looked up from my yoga mat to see the sun flooding in through the window like it never had before, only interrupted by a shadow in the shape of a cross. I began researching him from a leftist point of view. I started wondering what he had actually believed. I started thinking of him more as a man than as the son of God.
Isn’t it cooler if he wasn’t anything special? Isn’t his conviction and impact more impressive if it came from a human man? I like my Jesus as a brown, Jewish revolutionary—inspired by the persecution of his ancestors. I like him angry at the imperialism of Rome, ready to risk his life to be a voice for change, a stepping stone for liberation. I like to think of him as a person, a dirty hippie, if you like, of deep, abiding integrity, that wouldn’t allow him to sit idly by while hypocrisy ran wild. Like Tupac before him, maybe he thought, “I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
I like to think he’d be furious at the Joel Osteens, the Ronald Reagans, the atm megachurches, the homophobic congregations, the religious parents who kick their kids out for being gay, the puritanical, capitalistic, corrupt conservative Christian right. I’d like to think he’d be flipping a table or two.
The historical and/or mythological figure of Jesus has been highly depoliticized by the Christian right. Why? Could it have something to do with the fact that their messiah's politics dramatically opposed their own? Would he be pleased with the direction his brand is going? Or was he a marginalized people-loving-anarchist who hated the kind of hypocrisy currently being pedaled as a means of control?
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