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CHRISTIANITY REBORN
EVOLUTION & CHRIST FAITH OF self
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In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. John 1:1
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Evolution & Christ
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The history of the Christian church reads like a litany of horrors with the Christians being the victims only in the Invocation. Ever since Emperor Constantine "converted," thus making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, the hands of Christians have been stained with blood of various racial and ethnic hues. Only with the separation of Church and State in the last few centuries has the red tide ebbed. It is the expose of this past in all its gory detail, along with the decon struction of the ideologies used to support those in power, that is the real threat to Christianity today, not the "moral deterioration" of society. We realize now that our lineage is not so pure, and that many other religions can offer moral guidance as well. An intelligent, educated person can only shudder and turn away; and they have. This is why Christianity must change.
None of this is surprising if seen in the light of the evolution of social structures. People in power always strive to remain in power, and institutions in power always seek to perpetuate themselves. All social structures and organizations tend toward corruption; we cannot look to them to embody moral principles. Man is by nature selfish: selfish of self, selfish of family, selfish of race, and selfishness has always been essential for his survival. It is the struggle for persistence that creates murderers, persecutors, and medieval torturers, like an enduring and unceasing factory of cruelty.
Man in evolution must constantly recreate "the Other," the objectified human who does not possess the same rights as oneself to live, to be fed or own property, to reproduce, to be loved by God, etc. Where we chose to draw the margins of "the Other" is always changing: he may be black, Jewish, homosexual, liberal or conservative, or simply a business rival; but, regardless, he is never fully human. The "grand machine" pushes on, and the strong, the indifferent, the not truly empathetic, are the ones who live on through their descendants, their empires, or their ideas in a this-worldly immortality. Against this vast and soul-less movement is Jesus the Christ. To love the Other as oneself, to knock down the boundaries and rise above our determined selfishness, is the impossible idea made possible through God's grace and intervention in Christ.
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SEXUALITY
MAINPAGE
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The Inquisition
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