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Andrew Sullivan: Christianity in Crisis - The Daily Beast
Andrew Sullivan on the virtues of an apolitical Jesus:
Andrew Sullivan on the virtues of an apolitical Jesus:
Whether or not you believe, as I do, in Jesus divinity and resurrectionand in the importance of celebrating both on Easter SundayJeffersons point is crucially important. Because it was Jesus point.
What does it matter how strictly you proclaim your belief in various doctrines if you do not live as these doctrines demand?
What is politics if not a dangerous temptation toward controlling others rather than reforming oneself?
If we return to what Jesus actually asked us to do and to berather than the unknowable intricacies of what we believe he washe actually emerges more powerfully and more purely.