Jesus was not interested in creating Christians. Read More.
Somewhere along the way, people replaced the challenge of embodiment with the safety of devotion. It became easier to worship Jesus than to live as he lived. Easier to admire the Buddha than to undergo the kind of inner confrontation his path required. Religion turned living revelations into systems of belief, and in doing so often protected people from the very transformation these figures represented. Read More.
A comment to his post above was: Brandy Mitchell – The Imperial Court of Nicaea, It wasn’t neutral. Never was. The Jesus movement emerged from an oppressed people living under empire. Nicaea emerged from an imperial court. Those are not the same social locations. So ask yourself: When Rome defined orthodoxy, was it preserving the original tradition…or reframing it through imperial priorities?
Religious structures attract people who want to have “the answer.” True religion is a journey of learning to let go of that need.
