[Vision2020] Christ Church and freedom of religion

[Chasuk]

On 6/23/06, Taro Tanaka <taro_tanaka at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The short answer is that nobody connected with Christ Church believes that
> faith is something that can be coerced, and any attempt to coerce faith is
> futile. At the same time, obviously every Christian wants to see the entire
> earth converted to Jesus Messiah. We call on people to submit voluntarily to
> Jesus Messiah.

I like Jesus, from what I know of him.  Much of the Sermon on the
Mount is beautiful.  I wish that Christianity spent more time
concentrating on his moral teachings and less on the superstition.

There is a slim little volume called "What Jesus Meant" that I think
gets it almost right.  The Jesus Seminar seems also to focus primarily
on Jesus' ethical teachings, though I don't know how well they are
received by mainstream Christianity.

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"Aren't people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have, but
demand those they don't have; they have freedom of thought, they
demand freedom of speech." -- Søren Kierkegaard