What Did Jesus Have to Say About Religion

"Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it." - William Blake

If Jesus came down to earth what religion to you think that he would follow? Would he be a Catholic, Mormon, Pentecostal, or maybe a Baptist. Perhaps he would completely disregard Christianity for not following the words he preached about love and peace and turn to Buddhism or even the great conundrum, Scientology. Who knows. If we look through the bible you will find that Jesus actually had preached against religion and the religious leaders. The entire reason he was crucified is because the Jewish leaders feared him. He began attracting large crowds and preached against the religious rulers. He was a threat to their governing laws and the power they had over the people, especially through religious suppression.

The entire book of Matthew 23 is directed towards the religious rulers and teachers. Some of the things Jesus says are:

"Don't set people up as experts over your life, letting them tell you what to do. Save that authority for God; let him tell you what to do. No one else should carry the title of 'Father'; you have only one Father, and he's in heaven." - Matthew 23:9

"I've had it with you! You're hopeless, you religion scholars, you Pharisees! Frauds! Your lives are roadblocks to God's kingdom. You refuse to enter, and won't let anyone else in either. You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You go halfway around the world to make a convert, but once you get him you make him into a replica of yourselves, double-damned." - Matthew 23:13-15

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." - Matthew 23: 27-28

He spoke against traditional religion and promoted spirituality. He worked to heal people's fears of being separated from God. He spoke the message of the Kingdom being at hand and within each and every person. Jesus said that god is within each of us. Not separate but connected to us and in everything around us. One of his main lessons that he preached is to not allow the religious leaders and people tell you what to do or what to believe. He preached to only allow God to tell us what to do and that God is inside each and everyone of us. It doesn't matter if your Christian, Muslim, Buddhism, Hinduism, or even an Atheists. God exists inside everyone regardless of their beliefs.

If Jesus came down right now he would be ashamed at what people have done and created in his name. He would be ashamed of the Christian religion that uses his name but teaches something completely different than what he has preached. A religion that teaches if no one believes what they believe then they will go to hell. That if no one follows their system then they will burn forever. That if we don't submit ourselves and conform to their standards then we are destined to be tortured for eternity for nothing more than a belief that we had in this tiny amount of time compared to eternity.

Jesus preached about and was a symbol for love and peace, not religion. What was Jesus? Jesus was love. Love is the way the truth and the light. The way is the right path, the truth will set you free, and the light will guide you. All you need is love. Nothing else. Not religion, not the bible, and not any particular belief. Only love.

"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar." - Matthew 23: 33-35