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"ONCE I arrived at Yale Divinity Institution back 1988, I expected to engage in a powerful period of conversation and self-reflection around issues like eschatology, evangelism, and ecclesiology with fellow Protestants of all stripes (with a few Catholics thrown in as sort of a guilty pleasure). In the end, despite our theological differences, surely we all at least bought into this Nicene Creed biz, where it evidently states that Jesus was created, died, and then rose again from the deceased? "Silly me. Instead, way, way, a significant amount of time was put in navel gazing over trivial issues like 'Why can't priests be promiscuous?' 'What priestly benefits include this parish?' 'Is YDS a Religious' divinity university?' (This Q comes thanks to the fundy faithful). And my favorite: 'Why not use ^%$#@ inclusive dialect in worship?' (Uh, Jesus was a 'dude.' Hello.) I just don't understand why the creator of all, who loves most of her creation unconditionally, would bring his child into the world to are affected, pass away, and then rise from the deceased unless he knew such an work was had a need to transform the world. There's no way God would have given us the present of eternal life just so we could stage Religious catfights which make us all look like biblical buffoons. "Yes, we can point the finger at silver precious metal tongued televangelists and politicians behaving unbiblically. However the more I cover Religious carnage, I recognize that this foolish pursuit to conform Christ's teachings to the whims of your respective own socio-political plan has began to stink up the local churches big style. I understand Jesus was created in a barn, but do churches have to smell like one as well? In I Died because of this? I will pick up my pitchfork and muck out the spiritual stables for signals of the living Christ covered under the mounds of Jesus junk and trust fertilizer."
