oh, ya

It was about Robin Hood. King John was bad. The population was supressed and suffering (see the French and Russian Revolutions). They needed a hero, as people always do. They turned to story. Robin Hood may have been based on a real person, a rober, but people aren't sure.

As things got better, Robin turned into a figure of fun, and idiot and bumbler.

All people are about the same as people always have been. Everyone has the same needs and goals. Details vary from time and place, but there's only so many ways to be a person.

Robin Hood and King Arthur may or may not have been made up, but we still respond the same way people always have to them and their stories. We need heros. Someone and something to believe in that's the 'right way'. The honorable way.

I saw that comic, has an HBO show now, on Larry King last night and I just can't remember his name. He recently released the religion movie and he says it's all made up.

But Jesus is the same. Ultimately it doens't matter if Christianity is true. Jesus is the hero that people need. He provides the honor and guidance we all look for and always have. The problem is that people aren't always so good at following directions. It's the nature of human nature to be human.