The author's definition of "Good Christians" falls somewhat short regarding divine incarnation:
They are the ones who understand that Jesus was, quite simply, one hell of a powerful teacher, and healer, and mystic, and visionary, a pacifist, a liberal, a feminist, the ultimate outsider, one of the finest examples in all of history of how to radiate pure love and compassion and divine interconnection and Lord knows we could all use more of that.
But I wholeheartedly agree with this conclusion:
They are, in short, those who understand the deep irony that, when it comes to religion, the ones who scream and stomp and whine the loudest are often the ones who understand their faith the least.
2 comments:
if jesus was just a great teacher, he was a fraud that deserved to be stoned for blasphemy, and thus not a great teacher at all.
I thought it was a pretty impressive list of attributes, not just a teacher. Yes He is the Son of God, Prince of Peace, (how the Moral Mafia forgets that title), the propitiation of our sins, and the list does go on even more. His last words were that the World would know us by our Love for one another. Why then do fundamentalists so adamantly dismiss a Loving Jesus? Instead they make him an avenging Angel coming to judge the world in three or four second comings, who can keep count they just add more to fit their doom and gloom vision of the future. Why do they dismiss the message of forgiveness, and are unable to forgive those who get divorced, live a different life style, or believe differently than they do?
I think the gist of the article was when will Christians start following the teachings of Jesus instead of giving only lip service to them and then doing whatever they please.
Mohandas K. Gandhi once said, "I would have become a Christian, if I had ever met one."
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