Posted by
John Cord on Saturday, June 14, 2008 10:50:03 AM
An idolater of religion is one who judges others lesser in God or unholy or "unsaved" by their lack of religion. Fear is a most important tool of separatist religion. The fear of heretics that fueled the Catholic Inquisition never died, but morphed. Fox News analyst, Bill O'Reilly, a self-described "traditionalist" Catholic, effectively teaches that today's heretics of traditionalist religion are the Secular Progressives or "SP's." Where worldly religion teaches the fear of Secular Progressives, the Spirit of God and Christ is both secular and progressive.
Secularism is the want for religion to be out of the public square. Why? Because people hate and kill and war over religion and secularists see this and want to keep issues of religion out of schools and public affairs.
The Way of Selfless Love is "secularist" by the Spirit of the word, because Selfless Love is not about religion, but one's character alive and growing in Selfless Love. Those who honor The Way of the Spirit do not build religious separatism anywhere.
Jesus is not a traditionalist, but progressive, showing us out of the darkness of traditional, literal-based interpretations of scripture and into the Light of the Spirit of the Message. He is a secularist, as His Message has nothing to do with worldly religion, but everything to do with His Father's Spirit of Selfless Love.
Jesus Christ was a "Secularist Progressive" by the Spirit of those words.
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