What Jesus Meant

After reading Garry Wills on Jesus, I've concluded that the Martin Mull song Jesus Is Easy gets it exactly backwards. Mull sings: "Jesus is easy, just get down on your knees, he's going to listen to your every prayer." But the Jesus of the Gospels as explicated by Wills is anything but easy. His demands are comprehensive. His opposition to wealth, insistence on loving one's enemies and the most wretched, his demand for love above all -- there is nothing easy there for those who want to follow him. Mull may have been parodying the televangelists, in which case: bingo. Reading Wills reminds me of the line (I forget whose) that if Jesus were to return today and see what is being done in his name he would never stop throwing up.