if Jesus comes back
the pope will be the first person to ask for his crucifixion again
because he will disturb the whole business that's what he was doing the last time he was here
what is the difference between a religion and a cult
it is a complex question
you will have to understand
many things
before
the question can be answered
religion is an individual experience
only an individual can be religious
the cult is an establishment
it is an organization
it has nothing to do with religion at all
it exploits in the name of religion
it pretends to be religious and lives
on the past
for example christians will say they have it 2000 years past
but past is dead
it is a corpse
this is a very strange world in which we live
when jesus was there
jews could not accept him as religious
he and his followers were a cult jesus is a religious man
so there was the fragrance of religion around him
and those who were sensitive
available
receptive came close to jesus
this coming to jesus
was not a question
of any intellectual conviction
it was more like a love affair
they simply fell in love with the man
the religious man never converts anybody
but his presence
transpires
many people
to be with him a religious person has not followers but only fellow travelers
it is impossible for a religious person to insult somebody by calling him a follower
when jesus was crucified
then a strange thing happened that has happened to almost all the religions
the same type of people who had crucified jesus the rabbis
the priesthood the same type of people gathered around the dead
religious phenomenon which was
gone which was not there anymore
it is just like a fragrance of a flower the flower is gone
the fragrance lingers on a little and then it is lost
religion cannot have a continuity
it will always be individual here and there one individual becomes enlightened
and suddenly people start
attracted towards him
as if a magnetic force
jesus is not an intellectual
he is not even educated
he is not a theologian
he cannot argue for god or for religion in his all the teachings there is no argument
there are statements a philosopher argues a religious person states the philosopher
argues because he does not know it is thorough argument that he wants to come to a conclusion
but the religious person knows it he states it it is a declaration
and he also knows that there is no way to prove it
no argument is going to be supportive to it
but once that magnet disappears
the priest is the most cunning
part of humanity
clever
he is a businessman he sees the opportunity of a great business
while jesus is alive it is dangerous to be with him
no businessman will come close to him only gamblers
may risk and be with him
it is dangerous to be with him
he can be crucified you can be crucified
but once he is dead it is a great opportunity for business
then a new kind of people start gathering around those are the priests
the popes the imams the rabbis
learned is scholarly
argumentative dogmatic
they create the dogma the creeds they create the cults on the dead body of a religious person
a cult is created
christianity is a cult
frederick nietzsche used to say
and i feel that he has a tremendous quality of seeing certain things which others go on missing
the man was mad
but sometimes mad people have a very sharp intelligence
perhaps that is the reason that they go
mad
frederick nisse says that the first and the last christian died on the grass
two thousand years before since then there has been no christian at all
and he is absolutely right
jesus was the only christian although he never knew the word christian
he knew only aramaic the language which he spoke and a little bit of hebrew
the language with the rabbis spoke but he had no idea of greek the word christ is a greek word and
the word christian comes out of christ jesus never heard in his life the word christ are christian
the hebrew word for christ is messiah so he knew messiah
but once he died
and it is very strange
that the people when he was alive overflowingly alive and was ready to give to ser
to pour his being into your being people were abiding him
but once he was dead
the priests are not going to miss the opportunity
they immediately gather around the dead body of a Buddha, of a Jesus, of a Lao-Tzu
and they immediately make
the catechism
they start making a church on the dead body
if jesus comes back the pope will be the first person to ask for his crucifixion again
because he will disturb the whole business that's what he was doing the last time he was here
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