‘FATHER, FORGIVE THEM …’
David Williamson

And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do’.

Sorry, Jesus, but I think they knew exactly what they were doing.
Whistleblowers can be ostracised and neutered, but you were no mere whistleblower.

You had a fervent belief that you were the son of God, here on your father’s authority, to demand a better world.
But, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do to you’, was without any doubt the most threatening moral maxim the powerful, the messianic, the corrupt and the indifferent had ever been confronted with.
The powerful always worked on the rule: ‘Do unto others what your military might allows you to do’.
The fanatics and haters of this world: ‘Do unto others the thing that would cause them the most grief and devastation, irrespective of the devastation done to oneself’.
The corrupt: ‘Do unto others everything you can possibly get away with’.
The self-satisfied and indifferent: ‘Do unto others — absolutely nothing’.
So you see, Jesus, son of God or not, you had a lot of enemies out there.
And your vision of a compassionate, caring world, of understanding and reciprocity, remains just that. A vision.
I wish I knew why.