http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-jesus-wouldnt-cut-it-pastor-todays-evangelical-megachurches
Jesus promoted empathy for everyone, while the actions of today's religious establishment undermine it.
Jesus never could have been the pastor of a contemporary evangelical church nor a conservative Roman Catholic bishop.
Evangelicals and conservative Roman Catholics thrive on drawing
distinctions between their "truth" and other people's failings. Jesus by
contrast, set off an empathy time bomb that obliterates difference.
Jesus' empathy bomb explodes every time a former evangelical puts
love ahead of what the "Bible says." It goes off every time Pope Francis
puts inclusion ahead of dogma. It goes off every time a gay couple are
welcomed into a church. Jesus' time bomb explodes whenever atheists
follow Jesus better than most Christians.
Put it this way: Godless non-church-going Denmark mandates four weeks
of maternity leave before childbirth and fourteen weeks afterward for
mothers. Parents of newborn children are assisted with well-baby
nurse-practitioner visits in their homes.
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