tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459298.post4078207692050872847..comments2023-10-18T06:26:15.632-07:00Comments on Protohuman Blog: A new Jesus?Ughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267287853892482870noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459298.post-4772210132876048812014-01-17T06:50:46.516-08:002014-01-17T06:50:46.516-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.TJWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14184273106915507133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459298.post-86614938450544837172014-01-12T19:12:22.805-08:002014-01-12T19:12:22.805-08:00"I have personally seen a great many supposed..."I have personally seen a great many supposedly pious people treat the teachings of the bible as a guide for how to behave on Sunday. The rest of the week they are totally comfortable ignoring the messages of Jesus Christ. But then Jesus also has forgiveness in his heart for the hypocrite as well as everybody else."<br /><br />Well said! My point in essence is that the "Church" (big C) was transformed by the marriage of church and state and not in a good way. There is a new transformation happening with a focus squarely on Jesus. This will be a church that works in the margins of the common culture doing the good charitable things that church has always done but without the judgmental attitudes and cultural blackmail. Ughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267287853892482870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459298.post-25327273903889926422014-01-11T18:52:59.735-08:002014-01-11T18:52:59.735-08:00I for one tend to disagree with your older brother...I for one tend to disagree with your older brother. I do not see virtue in proclaiming religion as a pox on all humanity. The abuses of organized religion very closely parallel the abuses of our federal government. The larger and more powerfully omnipresent they become the easier it is for their abuses to occur with complete impunity, and with greater frequency. Just because the clergy claims a my way or the highway interpretation of the bible is the truth, does not mean it is the only way to honor and celebrate the teachings of Jesus. <br /><br />It's my own belief that Jesus Christ would never hold with such narrow minded zealotry. A religion having some sway upon the personal behavior of it's adherents does not absolve them of independent thought, or personal biblical interpretation. I have personally seen a great many supposedly pious people treat the teachings of the bible as a guide for how to behave on Sunday. The rest of the week they are totally comfortable ignoring the messages of Jesus Christ. But then Jesus also has forgiveness in his heart for the hypocrite as well as everybody else.<br /><br />Churches at a local even regional level do great good within communities. They are far more responsive and accountable to the needs of their congregants nearby. It's when the churches become too remote from their people that widespread abuses can flourish. I can no longer support the church I was raised in. Too much damage has been done, at it's heart lies a structural flaw within the sacrament of confession. Only God himself can find a way to redeem the Catholic church. This church provides us with another example of an entity becoming so enormously powerful it no longer represents or protects its most vulnerable members the Children.<br /><br />It's a sad that such pure loving message can get so hopelessly convoluted in peoples minds that most cannot accept what it is with grace or gratitude. Instead it is met with suspicion, derision or indifference. Is this the fault of religion? Or of Jesus Christ? Perhaps it's an integral failing of the human psyche? I think the later is far more likely. A new Jesus indeed.TJWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14184273106915507133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459298.post-81851589528188927012014-01-11T15:45:11.037-08:002014-01-11T15:45:11.037-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.TJWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14184273106915507133noreply@blogger.com