RE: Religion is no more Jesus that Krishna or Mohammed is
Posted on: July 16, 2020 at 07:17:49 CT
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The movement that formed around Jesus was a Jewish cult, a turning AWAY from greed and materialism, pomp and separation of God from "His" people symbolized by the "high priests" Sadducees and Pharisees. The approach of Jesus was far more in line with the Essene Community. What the world far later encounter was Pauline Christianity focusing NOT on one's personal responsibility to rise above materialism but on the concept of "rebirth" or resurrection, something Jesus never spoke beyond metaphysically.
Again - Whitlock's thing that Jesus and America is pretty offensive. Much of what drives America for the last 100 years has been Greed, the very human fault that Jesus rejected categorically.