I have real hard time with religious teaching of someone who died on the cross

I will be saved, and only by accepting Jesus as my Savior, blah blah blah.
That's just more competition of many religions, "one and only true god" as it
were. "If there weren't so many religions we'd have more paying sheep
followers."

Now with second viewing of Passion of Christ, something I still find somewhat
disturbing, I am more solid in my theory of the reality.

What if it WAS the plan to make a classic human mistake to show YOU what can
happen? Mistakes equal consequences. But that's it, an example for you to
ponder and POSSIBLY clue you in. No one is going to save you no matter how many
Jesus' get nailed to the cross. It is really up to you. Willing to go through
that experience for you, that you might have a better chance; "no greater
love".

My interpretation of the lesson: If you're angry, it's not time to communicate
with anyone. I am not saying you're a bad and wrong person if you ever feel
anger, no no no. You need to process the anger to completion, until it's gone.
But process in a way so that it doesn't destroy you, or hurt anyone else; anger
becoming a positive (though contracting) emotion, with a positive result.

Passion cannot rule nor can logic, they must rule together. Expression of
emotion should, needs, must be tempered with logic, enough so that it BECOMES
positive, with thought and action balanced and tempered by expansive emotion of
the heart. Now sadly unfortunately one third of the trinity will never know what
love feels like and will never be able to do it, because of what they are, dark
souls. Their angry logic has no wife, no heart to guide their thoughts. What
would be worse and far scarier than that of course, would be all emotion with
no logic. So how do you do it?

Angry? "Walk away", and get off by yourself, that's step 1. Fail here and it
COULD be a defining failure. There can be 7 steps to a synergistic process. The
4th step is the core.

Processing Anger
1. Create space - get off alone
2. Create thought - what is causing this anger
3. Create ideas - what would be an appropriate expression that doesn't hurt
4. Express the anger - get it out and be done with it - don't take it back
5. Create new ideas
6. Create new thought
7. Create new space - so that there is a basis for communication in the future


at all and even if it was just made up.

So what love could make one willing to go through all of that for you, just so
you can have a defining example? Whenever anyone that great comes into the
world, the world is changed, not "saved by the one and only god". "No greater
love".

The part left out in the movie, to help you make this connection, was the part
where he got a whip and threw a temper tantrum in the temple, the only case
they had on him and only excuse for the nailing, instead of creating space and
processing the anger in a positive manner.

All the action taken when angry, other than creating space, is based in a
control-trip. Step one requires that you give up your pathetic and moronic
control-trip.

47 minutes into the movie you see the most profound dialog of the movie. Pilate
asks his wife Claudia, what is truth? Do you recognize it? She replied yes.
Pontius then asks how. "If you will not hear the truth, no can tell you", she
says to him.

I write since it helps me remember, not to put down religion, though it may be
way down there on its own.

Another subject on topic would be the list of reasons people go to church. I am
not going into the whole list but a couple to think about.

Guilt is big one and for social reasons to meet other people are perhaps at the
top of the list, with worship and prayer being very low. And after all the
scripture did say to do your praying and worship in private not public. Doh!

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