text: I'm of the view that there is an alternative way of viewing Jesus and his message: I increasingly view the entire Jesus' story as a huge metaphor — not necessarily thought up by the particular person named "Jesus" who was reputedly a carpenter born in a place called Bethlehem with the surname "Christ" — but a "metaphor for life" thought up by millions of people, beginning with the earliest writers of his Gospel and New Testament stories, which reflects on the life journey all people have to travel through. Life, sadly and inherently, is all about chance, randomness, injustice, unfairness, pain, suffering and anxiety. None of us can escape it, even with all the money in the world, although we all try or crave to escape these inherent characteristics of life. (Concludes in next post...)