Many of us (Christians, Heathens, Pagans, Atheists) celebrate the cultural aspects of Christmas; gift giving, commercialism, drinking and being merry. Many of us thank God/Jesus and think warm thoughts about a babe in a manger with straw, animals and shepherds gathering round, the magi, a star. Jackson is saying, whatever he may be to you, Jesus, is not for the hypocritical, who take him out of mothballs every December and put him back in his box a month later. Jackson is saying that he is not a believer in Jesus as Savior, but that does not mean that the words and actions of Jesus, who comingled and intentionally connected with the outcasts, the sick, the Samaritans; the marginalized should be forgotten and ignored. For all that Jesus was, is and represents, the few that try to live as He lived are condemned by the rest of us, as He was condemned for interfering in the business of the Sadducees.
Many of us (Christians, Heathens, Pagans, Atheists) celebrate the cultural aspects of Christmas; gift giving, commercialism, drinking and being merry. Many of us thank God/Jesus and think warm thoughts about a babe in a manger with straw, animals and shepherds gathering round, the magi, a star. Jackson is saying, whatever he may be to you, Jesus, is not for the hypocritical, who take him out of mothballs every December and put him back in his box a month later. Jackson is saying that he is not a believer in Jesus as Savior, but that does not mean that the words and actions of Jesus, who comingled and intentionally connected with the outcasts, the sick, the Samaritans; the marginalized should be forgotten and ignored. For all that Jesus was, is and represents, the few that try to live as He lived are condemned by the rest of us, as He was condemned for interfering in the business of the Sadducees.