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Please join me in a short look at life as Jesus commanded us to live it.
Place your shoes in the shoe bins along with your labels and opinions. Any affiliations you may have with a church, religion, party or club, branch of the military, country of origin, race or heritage, all must be placed in the shoe bin before entering the viewing chamber.
Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindi, Buddhists, Wicca, Ramakrishna, atheists, theists, pantheists, Gnostics and agnostics, all are welcome, including those not listed here.
If you've made it this far, thank you for coming. Please get comfortable. I will be asking for your participation shortly.
The name Jesus Christ still electrifies people as it did 2,000 years ago. No name evokes a faster fight-or-flight response. While he's most famous for his miracles, considered proofs in his day, many of these feats are today considered cheap tricks: what was once called Simony is Rovery today, and any real magic left the stage just ahead of Ed Sullivan. Therefore let us now sweep aside these stumbling blocks and forget for now any notions of the divinity of Jesus so the one thing he suggested we do can come to light.
Bucky Fuller (Bucky Fuller?) said that if an expert can't explain his area of expertise because it's too complicated, then he just doesn't understand it. Jesus understood his area of expertise and was able to put it all into a three-word sentence: Love one another.
This is quite a command; a bit of a head scratcher. Can we have an example? He gives us a little more. Love one another as you would love yourself.
Article comments
1 - Dirtgrain
Have we ever had a "love one another as you would love yourself" country, culture or community in the history of the human race? I'm trying to think of an example, and all I can come up with is that special bond between Donnie and Marie Osmond. Group identity and group dynamics seem to get in the way of loving one another. I don't know if we can overcome the difficulties presented by the concept of otherness. That does not mean that we should give up trying--too many have given up already. We certainly can get a whole lot closer to Jesus's ideal.