Choose Your Own Jesus Adventure.

Disclaimer: This is for entertainment purposes as of right now. It could manifest itself as something tangible later on. So, DO NOT get your panties in a bunch just yet... Maybe when I get my Nietzsche paper done, you can, but not until then!

Back story: I was hanging out with some friends last night, and we were just shuffling through some of me music, and might I add it's awesome. You see, I don't listen to a lot of variety when in my room; I tend to maintain a fairly heavy regimen of heavy music: hardcore, metal, death metal, some rap, you know the good stuff. So, one of my friends was like, "Where' the Christian music?" I retorted, "Most of this is Christian music." Jokingly he replied, "It's too angry to be Christian."

Prompted Idea: So, following that little bit of conversation it hit me... I can take some scripture out of context, run with it, and produce a book. Now, that sounds crazy, but it's more realistic that you might think/know. However, I refuse to get into that right now.. maybe tomorrow. Thus, I continue. Often times, within the confines of the evangelical churches that we find around the country today, their selling point is a "personal relationship with Jesus." Now, this isn't exactly a biblical premise, so it can't be taken out of context per say, however it can be manipulated in order to produce some funny stuff. Here we go...

Manifested Idea: In most cases, in order to have a personal relationship with Jesus, one needs to change their behavior, in order to fit the mold of what society has deemed a "good Christian," however I thought it would be easier if Jesus manifested himself to us as to relate to us better. I think it is easier for an ultimate being to relate to infinite than the reverse, so why shouldn't Jesus conform to our personality types and lifestyle choices? Makes sense to me. So, I decided that I was going to write a book, but not just any book. In the same vein as R.L. Stein, it would be a choose your own adventure type book, but instead of working through an adventure, you would work through a Jesus search database. Depending on what sort of personality types you possess, musical tastes, television choices, just whatever personalizes your life, you would find a Jesus that would better suit you than a 2000+ year old concept of a human deity.

There you have it, a Choose Your Own Jesus book. It will probably be on the back burner for a little while, because I still have a long paper to write about why Nietzsche hates Christianity, and a comparison paper to do between Martin Luther the Reformer and John Wesley the Method-ist. However, I will keep you updated as I progress towards putting this book on paper. I may or may not be serious about this, but I'm sure there is a market for such semi-non sense. It is humorous to think about nonetheless.

-Andy J. Graves

Disclaimer: This is for entertainment purposes as of right now. It could manifest itself as something tangible later on. So, DO NOT get your panties in a bunch just yet... Maybe when I get my Nietzsche paper done, you can, but not until then!