Across cultures throughout human history, people have sought to flee oppression and escape persecution. A recurring theme in Western classical literature and in modern classics such as Superman and Disney originals, which revolve around the struggle between good and evil, is the need and critical role for a rescuer or savior.

Christmas is the celebration of the birth of the messiah, the ultimate rescuer and savior for mankind, who would vanquish evil, oppression, and falsehood once and for all. In that sense, Jesus is the most revolutionary figure of human history. No other religion makes the claim that it was founded by a messiah.

Many people assume Christianity is like other religions that require followers to give up bad habits and perform certain works and rituals acceptable to God. Not so. Christ reminds us in Matthew 11:30 that, "My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." When a learned Jewish Pharisee, whose life revolved around living up to stressful "dos and don'ts" of the Mosaic law, asked Jesus which was the greatest commandment in the law, Jesus answered simply that if we love God and love our neighbor as ourselves, we will have fulfilled all the laws.

Even non-believers recognize Jesus as the most far-reaching revolutionary. Christians were the first to accomplish things that no one else could do, such as bringing an end to infanticide, human sacrifice, mistreatment of women, and institutionalizing universal education and healthcare by building schools and hospitals. Jesus Christ not only civilized the barbaric tribes of Europe, but affected culture and history around the world with such an impact that He split time, dividing all human activities and events into happening before his coming (called B.C.) or after his coming (called A.D.). Christ had to have had a supernatural impact for non-Christians around the world to agree to dividing history in two.

The power of Christ can also be measured by beauty. A full collection of Renaissance Christian art, if it could be assembled, would be worth many times more than all the other art in the world combined.

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