The Most Extreme Form of Discrimination

If only a few hundred animals of a kind exist,
then they go on the endangered species list.

If certain groups of humans
are systematically wiped out as not valuable,
we call that genocide.

If certain types of natural resources
are being squandered,
burned and
blatantly destroyed,
we pass conservation laws.

Yet, one form of human life
is being treated every day as though
unimportant,
worthless,
nonexistent!

There is only one human
in this kind,
this group,
this quality of life!

Today, humans demand
equality
in love,
in choice,
in respect.

Yet, this human
in the most extreme of minorities
daily experiences
the most extreme form of discrimination.

Many humans scream,
"Don't tell me who I can love!"
Yet, some of these same humans
refuse the love of this most extreme of minorities.

Many humans demand the right to choose,
but many of these same humans do not allow
this most extreme of minorities to choose them.

Many humans demand
the right to do whatever they want to do,
to say whatever they want to say,
to be whatever they want to be
in whatever form they want that to be.

Yet, this most extreme of minorities
has written a book with his own thoughts,
while many brazenly refuse to give him the credit
for writing his own book.

This human being has declared that
he is the ultimate in human existence
lightyears beyond what "evolution" could ever imagine.
However, skeptics disbelieve his very existence.

This human, no doubt, has more melanin
than the ones against whom people of color
have decried their poor treatment for centuries.
But no one considers it foul play
to discriminate against him.

"Who is this most extreme of minorities?" you ask.
"What does he claim?" you wonder.
"Is there any proof that he is one-of-a-kind?" you demand.
"Why hasn't he filed a complaint long before now?"

All good questions!

He claims to be human.
You'll buy that?
Great!

He claims to be God, too.
Say, "What?"
Now, I'm losing you.

I understand.

"No one can be a human and a god at the same time!" you assert.

Can you prove
that you that you
have always been a human
and have never had an ape
in your ancestry?
If you can't prove this,
then you may have ape
in your cellular memory.
That would make you human
and ape at the same time.

Any human can be proved to be alive by a few simple tests.
Are you breathing?
Does your heart beat?
Can your body process food?
Do your cells grow?

Myriad other touch-points
can prove your life in time
on Planet Earth.

However, what are the facts
regarding your birth and ancestry?
Others must fill in these details.
Is this not right?

Do you remember when you were born?
Do you remember the details of that day?
Do you know the time and place of your birth?

For all of us memory
is not a good touch-point
of the details regarding our existence
on Planet Earth.

Others have written down these details.
Many others have believed these details
because they have been written down.

Are the details of our existence any more real
because they have been written in a book for posterity?

Are the details of our existence any more real
because other human beings
have chosen to believe these written records?

Ultimately, the deciding factor in the believability of any fact
on Earth,
in the Cosmos,
in the totality of Existence
is the decision to believe the fact
without regard to the multiplicity
of the corroboration of that fact.

Humans will believe
the greatest desire of their hearts
simply because they have a visceral need
to believe that desire is really true,
even when a surplus of evidence
refutes the thing they believe.

Other humans will disbelieve
an idea,
a concept,
a point of view
that has been proved time and again to be true,
simply because the subject in question
does not fit into their belief system.

Scientists in recent centuries
have alleged truth
that the material cosmos is eternal.
"There is nothing outside of our Cosmos!"
they brazenly declare.

How can they prove it?
How can the Scientific Method be used
to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt"
that matter is eternal
and that God is not eternal,
nor does He exist?

The Scientific Method
is based upon the assumption
that if something is true,
then it is observable and duplicatable.

The eternality of matter
is spuriously observable.

The beginnings of our existence
as a human race is
neither observable
nor duplicatable.

The natural processes
of Earthly conditions
has been fairly consistent
for centuries and millennia.

Humans assert probable conditions for life
at the beginnings of human existence
based upon the consistency
of modern processes.

However, there is a BIG ASSUMPTION here.

It is ASSUMED
that modern processes
are either eternal
or consistent
within logical parameters
throughout the eternality
of the material Cosmos.

What if the processes
we can observe
throughout recorded history
are not the only possible processes
throughout the entirety
of material existence?

Would that not make it reasonably plausible
that our understanding of Existence
is flawed to some degree?

The evidence available to Humanity
has be used to prove that Earth's existence
is in a range from a few thousand years of age
to billions of years,
based merely upon one's point of view.
Is that not true?

If our understanding
of the material Cosmos
is potentially flawed,
even to some degree,
then isn't it equally plausible
that our understanding
of what constitutes life
could be reasonably flawed, too?

With all of that as background,
it is now time to consider
the claims of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

This Man claims to be 100% Man.
Few would dare to deny
that He lived a very human life
for 33 1/3 years
in the country of Israel.

This human claims to be 100% God
at the same time.
Who can prove that?
Who can disprove that?

No one has ever found His bones.
THAT is significant!

Proof is not the issue at the moment.
Consideration is.

What if Jesus of Nazareth
is actually who He claims to be?
What would that mean to Humanity,
regarding our relationship to Him?

Think of it!
100% Human.
100% God.

Is there any other individual
with these credentials?

If this is true,
then that would make Jesus of Nazareth
the most unique Individual
throughout the entirety of Existence.

These facts would make
Jesus of Nazareth
the most extreme of minorities.

To deny His existence
would be politically-incorrect.

To remove Him
from the dialogue
of Humanity
would be socially-unacceptable.

To erase His contributions
to the Earth,
to the Solar System,
to the Milky Way,
to the Cosmos,
to Existence itself
would be unconscionable.

In other words
if we wouldn't discriminate
against any other bona fide minority,
then we really don't have any rationale
for discriminating against
Jesus of Nazareth, either.

I can't prove His claims,
but I can't disprove His claims, either.

No human can.

by Jay O'Toole
on March 21st, 2017