Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious

practices over major theorizing. There is no indication He wanted any of

His followers to be what I call  ¢â‚¬Å“thought police ¢â‚¬  ¢â‚¬”thought police

for others. That has been Rome ¢â‚¬â„¢s preoccupation for the greater part of

1,000 years. Show me the passage where Jesus gave [the Roman Church] the authority to

police the whole world! This is the way that Western civilization went;

we mirrored the secular culture in many ways. The only thoughts Jesus

told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own

violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts ¢â‚¬”not other people ¢â‚¬â„¢s

thoughts.

Saying a person is a heretic because they don ¢â‚¬â„¢t believe this, or that

they ¢â‚¬â„¢re going to hell because they don ¢â‚¬â„¢t believe that, or that God

doesn ¢â‚¬â„¢t love them because they don ¢â‚¬â„¢t have this mental abstraction

that we have decided would save us ¢â‚¬”where did Jesus say any of this?

Where did Jesus say there was a set of mental abstractions we had to

believe that would make God love us or that would ensure that we would

go to heaven?

(  Adapted from Jesus as Liberator/Paul as Liberator (CD, DVD, MP3)

http://store.cacradicalgrace.org/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?)