the Church has never been able to get entirely away from the revolutionary spirit of Jesus. It is an essential doctrine of Christianity that the world....

the Church has never been able to get entirely away from the revolutionary spirit of Jesus. It is an essential doctrine of Christianity that the world is fundamentally good and practically bad, for it was made by God, but is now controlled by sin. If a man wants to be a Christian, he must stand over against things as they are and condemn them in the name of that higher conception of life which Jesus revealed. If a man is satisfied with things as they are, he belongs to the other side. For many centuries THE SOCIAL AIMS OF JESUS 9I the Church felt so deeply that the Christian conception of life and the actual social Hfe are incompatible, that any one who wanted to live the genuine Christian hfe, had to leave the world and hve in a monastic community. Protestantism has abandoned the monastic life and settled down to live in the world. If that imphes that it accepts the present condition as good and final, it means a silencing of its Christian protest and its surrender to "the world." There is another alternative. Ascetic Christianity called the world evil and left it. Humanity is waiting for a revolutionary Christianity which wiU call the world evil and change it. We do not want "to blow all our existing institutions to atoms," but we do want to remould every one of them. A tank of gasolene can blow a car sky-high in a single explosion, or push it to the top of a hill in a perpetual succession of little explosions. We need a combination beween the faith of Jesus in the need and the possibility of the kingdom of God, and the modern comprehension of the organic development of human society. We saw at the outset of our discussion that Jesus was not a mere social reformer. Rehgion was the heart of his life, and all that he said on social relations was said from the religious point of view. He has been called the first socialist. He was more ; he was the first real man, the inaugurator of a new humanity. But as such he bore within him the germs of a new social and political order.... N

Rereading this book, extremely disappointed. It catalyzed Martin Luther King jr., and that's pretty important. But it is about the church, reforming the church. There's no hope in that.

I couldn't stand the middle chapters so I've gone right to the end and will spend a few more hours giving it a chance.

Reading it first 10 years ago or so it was electrifying. Why I found it electrifying I have no idea.

The right to women as sex slaves!

A Primitive step was understanding fire as a god. Scientific understanding was transformational. Religions are deathly primitive.

Jesus here. There are 2 of us, me, a flesh and blood Jew in Palestine 2000 years agon And my antithesis, a Frankenstein creation of White European male supremacist beginning Within years of my crucifixion. You cannot worship God and mammon. You are choosing, but maybe without understanding your choice.

Jesus here. There are 2 of us, me, a flesh and blood Jew in Palestine 2000 years agon And my antithesis, a Frankenstein creation of White European male supremacist beginning Within years of my crucifixion. You cannot worship God and mammon. You are choosing, but maybe without understanding your choice.

BTW, the white male supremacist guy that hijacked my name 1700 years ago, is everything I died to save you from.

The Christian trumper's that would want to crucify James, finally met two. Vlog

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The church exists by getting you to pay them to be your conscience. This by killing yours, your soul, for which Christ died.

Trump, the other thugs, the crowning achievement of 2,000 years of Christian Church. Scrupulously keeping Jesus teaching from us.

Tolstoy, kog. The religious superstition is encouraged by establishing, with money taken from the....

The religious superstition is encouraged by establishing, with
money taken from the people, temples, processions, memorials, and
festivals, which, aided by painting, architecture, music, and
incense, intoxicate the people, and above all by the support of
the clergy, whose duty consists in brutalizing the people and
keeping them in a permanent state of stupefaction by their
teaching, the solemnity of their services, their sermons, and
their interference in private life--at births, deaths, and
marriages

Jesus, the addictive drug.

Jesus, the addictive drug. 

Even in the McDonald's today the music playing, every song, was Jesus. Country primarily but not exclusively. It has been that way for the last 100 miles or so. 

This post is in an initial attempt by James  to

The law and the prophets, expired. Jesus....

Right to pulse, not right to life, these twisted religious Fanatics are, with barely an exception. Life? They have zero concept of it.

Christianity is so we do not have to take Jesus at his word.

Christianity is designed in many ways virtually always, to replace what Jesus said with what men want to hear, or to use, to oppress and exploit others. So unfortunate these words from James sound mean or cynical or cruel. Because they are obvious fact when one looks at it long enough.

Bible inerrancy, the greatest oppression lie in history.

I just saw this! Have you seen it?
What a great trick. If you want to make yourself God.

you call the Bible, or, a Rorschach inkblot if you can get away with it, inerrant, infallible.
No, that only sets the stage.
And now you don't say, but you act, that your personal interpretation is the only truth.
See what you just pulled off?

You made yourself God. It is you, your understanding, your understanding within you that you have just made inerrant, God!
Now you can do, exploit, opress, disenfranchise, anyone you want! And that's how it is.

Hey Christians, abortion was never spoken of by the real Jesus. Ever. He spoke loudly about abusing children.

White Christian US males: No one will abuse or kill my wife or kids... except for me, my church, my pastor, my guns or my military.

White Christian US males: No one will abuse or kill my wife or kids... except for me, my church, my pastor, my guns or my military.

Christian fundamentalism. Intoxicating lies and delusion as a way of life. Extremely gratifying entirely deadly.

Do I fear, hate, loathe, despise you, or are you a Christian? Is Jesus your lord and savior?

These were not the words, but they were the content of a brief dialogue with a thirtysomething white man today in town. It was shockingly revealing. Christianity is a way for this person, and most liked him, just simply be on the winning team. They experience being losers otherwise. This gives them license, even a duty, to hate and feel Superior to everyone providing the wrong answer. It is simply a means of having a license to hate and feel Superior. There are few exceptions.

The greatest mass murderer is the church, murdering the living soul in this life, for the lie of a living Soul after this life. Atrocity. Genocide.

The greatest mass murderer is the church, murdering the living soul in this life, for the lie of a living Soul after this life. Atrocity. Genocide.