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“I believe that if Jesus lived today, he would be a secular humanist and would reject Christianity, just as he "rejected" Judaism and inspired Christianity.” “I believe Jesus would be perplexed about the state of Christianity today. No, I didn' t put that strongly enough. A character in Woody Allen' s film "Hannah and Her Sisters" said it best: "If Jesus Christ came back today and saw all the things that were committed in his name, he would never stop throwing up." Because really, he was constantly saying that the point of spiritual life is to transform the heart so that we are strengthened for work in the world – for healing, for feeding, for bringing others back to life when they are cast out, hurt, and dejected. Many Christians proclaim that the world is supposed to store up treasures in heaven and not try to buy a sense of security by collecting things. And what are millions of Christians spending their time doing? Shopping. Judging others, in direct opposition to what Jesus taught. Arguing about the supposedly proper forms of sexuality about which Jesus never said one blessed word. Obsessing about worship practices when Jesus said to get out and love your neighbor, and stop living by the letter of the religious law.” “Jesus wasn't about religion, in fact he reserved his anger for organised religion and challenged, ignored or subverted religious practices. He didn't teach the non-religious about religion, or expect them to become 'religious'. If anyone has to become religious to follow Jesus they've missed the point, so talk of the relationship between church and state is missing the point too. It really is debateable whether Jesus wanted a Church. In fact, Jesus was a humanist. We should be humanists too.” “Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or belief in a deity. It does not, however, assume that humans are either inherently good or evil, nor does it present humans as being superior to nature. Rather, the humanist life stance emphasizes the unique responsibility facing humanity and the ethical consequences of human decisions.” Less than fifty percent of Americans identify as churchgoers due to the hypocrisy of the church. I think Jesus would use symbolic interpretations for all religious languages as well as all things religion. Jesus was a figuratist, not a literalist. I do remember there were times when women and I would have each other hold each other items while physically defending each other regarding male misogynists and have each other items held by other people in the crowds while physically defending each other together (meaning rough up the male misogynists.) Our verbal defenses of each other was explicit, direct, and potent. In the streets, the saying was: “if you don’t want your manhood card to be revoked, don’t step to ‘Tonio.” Another Street saying was: “When it comes to business, ‘Tonio handles his.” There were people scared to privately and publicly discuss crimes and criminals due to their fearing for their lives. Drug deals and drug usage occurred in some churches and sex with drug customers occurred in some churches too. Organized crime of all kinds are even in some churches. Jail escapes are real as well. Jail rapes, don’t drop the soap, nasty prison food, prison violence, inmate theft, prison murders, prison feuding, prison arguments, prison sex between inmates, bad bunkbeds, no privacy in jail, people watching you use the restroom in your jail cell, and some guards and inmates being sexual with each other actually happens. Religionists (some of them) are weirdly silent on Asherah, God’s wife, and Lilith, the one who was said to be Adam’s first wife. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support