In all honesty, once Christianity was on top and fully part of the establishment -- after Constantine -- the Church was a bit embarrassed by the powerless one, Jesus. We had to
make his obvious defeat into a glorious victory that had nothing to do
with defeat -- his or ours. Let's face it, we feel more comfortable with
power than with powerlessness. Who wants to be like Jesus on the cross,
the very icon of powerlessness? It just doesn't look like a way of
influence, a way of access, a way that's going to make any difference in
the world. We Christians are supposed to be so
strange for just this reason! We worship this naked,
bleeding loser, crucified outside the walls of Jerusalem -- but yet we always
want to be winners, powerful, and on top ourselves ... at least until
we learn to love the little things and the so-called little people, and
then we often see they are not little at all, but better images of the
soul.
The way of Jesus is the way for crucified losers. Not successful tyrants.
