Short Story: The man who looked like Jesus Christ

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Evan Marzall was a man, who looked like Jesus Christ. People were always telling him this. He never paid it much mind, until after his mother died, and left him some money. He thought to himself, "Well, as long as I look like Jesus Christ, maybe I should start acting like him now too." And so, he decided to use his mother's money to help others with. He started off just buying groceries for those in his hometown, who he could see needed a handout, from time to time. Then, he would help those who needed medical aid. He would pay for their medical, and pharmaceutical costs too. After a while, he got to be known in his village as a bit of an eccentric nutter. In fact, a petition was taken up to have him committed as a nutcase, into the local lunatic asylum. It was said that he was corrupting the good people of his town, handing out handouts, to beggars, on the streets, and the homeless too. And who knows what a nutcase like that might do next, maybe kidnap a child, or two. But, really, he had made them all look like mean people, by his overly extravagant deeds of charity, which they also did not like, as to what it said about them too. They were jealous of him in one respect, but suspect of him in another. Why would anyone, but a fruitcake, be so loose with his money, like that? And so, a local judge, had him committed, and he spent the rest of his now shortened life, in the loony-bin. He had been 35, when his mother had died, and for the next five years he had been on his charitable kick, until he was committed to the mental asylum, where he lasted only a short 6 months, not being able to take, being so confined, and so restricted, in such a nasty place. A local newspaperman said it best, in the small press release published in the local paper that week, of his death. "Things are worse now than they were 2000 years ago, where, if you were Jesus Christ, you were killed off, on a cross. Now, 2000 years later, if you even just look like Jesus Christ, you are grabbed, and locked up to rot in a mental asylum for the village lunatics." (This was before the time of political correctness.) Now these places are referred to as, "restorative institutions for the mentally challenged," or more simply as, mental health services, carried out now in Psychiatric hospitals. The closing of mental hospitals, or clinics, was called, "deinstitutionalization." Even today, though, this might well have happened too. People that are different from the norm, are always shunned, or punished in this way. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Evan Marzall looked exactly like the pictures of Jesus Christ that have been painted of him.