The teachings of Christ were an attempt to move past repressive existing cultures- the failure of the institutional Church was when it abandoned the attempt to spread a new teaching grounded in peace. equality, generosity and inclusion, and embraced the values you hold to instead-the values of Imperial Rome.
Written by Ken Burch
Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.