Everything – I underline it, everything including the Church, Gospels, and customs, are here due to me. Yet, in return I got only abdication. Heroes are abdicated for the things that later become the basement of life. Heroes waken too strong a feeling.
Prometheus’ sufferings are nothing when compared to what I have suffered.
You might think I will tell you about Roman crowds, vicious Emperors, tigers, and circuses? Well, these were involved but I will tell you about another thing. That is, Christian fraternities. That’s what made the last years of mine a real hell. "Why do you pursue me, Paul?" Jesus asked, and I got the vision and became the most passionate apprentice of Him. So, what do we see now? "Brothers, why do you pursue me?" I asked Christians. Hah, you think a single man to acquire the vision or at least feel merciful? None!
Those people...
Prometheus gave them fire, and they applauded seeing him hanged on a mount. I developed the faith for them, and they ruled me out of Rome. I went to Napoli. Ephesus, Africa, Jerusalem – all rejected to accept me. So, I roamed to Gallia.
Roman church pursued the one who made it the actual church.
"We rule you out, Paul, just due to our love to you and to Jesus," they told me solemnly.
"What do you mean?" I asked in a weak voice.
"What you claim is too easy and logical. But the One Whose Name Is Prohibited is always where things go too easily and logically."
Five years after pursuing me, Roman fraternity claimed the principle "Christianity for everyone regardless of his nation". Well, naturally, they did not apologize. In fact, I wasn’t even informed. They thought I was dead by that time.
Hence, they stole my idea.
Peter despised me, yet it was him who deserved the contempt. I did pursue Jesus when I was blind, but never did I betray him. One of Peter’s messages tells that I am a fake prophet. He was insolent enough to say so, because he was on short hands with Jesus whereas I wasn’t.
"Brothers", I told the Athenians when I came to them to establish Christianity in their lands, "You are already Christians, for you believe in God. The only thing I have to do is to tell you his name. It is Christ!"
And I made for the exit. Every other thing I am believed to have said was written later. I did not talk much. I had to shock them, to stun, to attract, and to hold with me. The only means to attain it is to be paradox. I was. So, what happened then?
Athenians stopped me and started applauding.
Pagans’ apostle... That’s how the church called me despising. They did not understand that religion is politics. Church is an empire.
I was Hellenic with Greeks, I was Judaic with Jews, I limped with cripples, and closed my eyes with the blind. This is the only way to make people understand. I told them to behave similarly with religious laws. You want small gods to stay with you? Fine, let’s call them angels! They might call me ever-adapting but show me at least one of them who transformed into Christians one-tenth of whom I did?!
Nietzsche accused me of destroying Christ’s plan. It is even more amazing because he himself did not accept Jesus at all. Well, people often feel insulted for the other people who might have died by the moment. Moreover, people often get insulted, and avenge for absolutely abstract things. Motherland and religion are among the most popular.
None of you know what motherland is. Peter told that my motherland was church and accused me of desecrating it by introducing dirty pagans in.
Fales thought that god is water. Heraclites thought it to be fire. It was numbers for Pythagoras, atom for Democritus, sphere for Plato, lightnings for Slavs, and potatoes for Peru Indians.
I thought that god is God.
The only thing I did not formulate is the definition of God. The One Whose Name We Do Not Pronounce. Peter and his consecutives named Devil in this way. Idiots. They hurried to name Devil without having named his opposite. I tremble of fear when imagine what could happen if the Church developed the way Peter wanted it to.
My power and faith are what spread Christianity all over the places. People were baptized in thousands where I preached. I organized a network of churches – ecclesiae – and linked them all.
In fact, I founded an Empire inside another Empire.
But Peter did not like me. No one did. .
Jews thought me to be a rebel who betrayed the ancestors’ religion. Romans thought that I betrayed the governmental interests. Pagans thought that I betrayed the oppressed nations. Christians believed that I gave the most sacred to everybody.
I was pursued, and nobody knows where I died. Well, that’s fate. We are accused as liars but we are honest; we are unfamiliar to anyone but people know us in flesh; we are thought to have died but we are alive; we are executed but we do not die...
We are still poor but we presented the world each of its treasures...
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