maeglthebagel:

the prevailing narrative tumblr has about Jesus being “a cool dude” is so… tepid. like don’t get me wrong. he was a poor Jewish man in Roman-occupied Palestine and he spent his time with people who were shunned, disabled, disenfranchised, prostituted, oppressed. (and so should everyone, especially those who follow Jesus.)

but he did more than that. he so radically changed those people that they died brutally instead of saying he wasn’t God.

when you look at what Jesus said and did and how totally he affected the world, it’s just—“cool” does not cut it. like c.s. lewis said. this lukewarm stuff about Jesus being a good man, or even a progressive one—it’s just patronizing. he demanded all or nothing for a reason.