zaangalewa
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No, Jesus did found a Church, the Catholic Church
"I will build My Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it"
and the gates of Hell have not prevailed, despite all the stupid humans throughout history who attacked Christ's Church. They never let up... I guess they think they will like Hell...
they won't but you can't convince them...
Religion and church is not the same. The church is an universal (=catholic) church. I make sometimes the joke to say "God is a Catholic" what some people see as an unbelievable arrogance from me - but indeed god is "universal" - even a little more universal than only universal. Catholics are able to be very different - but in all this differences we are unified in the love and logos of god.
I remember in this context now in the moment for example when on a deep cold winter evening in a Catholic church Catholics and other Christians from three different denominations, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and perhaps also some Atheists came together to ask god for peace against a threatening war in a very concrete situation. On whatever reason he had not been able to do us the favor and this war came - nevertheles I'm sure everyone who was in this church in this night got from god peace for the own life.