The Christian bucket "Kingdom of God" was swung around the pyramid today in vocal ministry and the J word was used too. I really didn't hear anything else because my brain was frozen on the words Kingdom of God. Funny coincidence; I just finished watching the movie of almost the same title just a few days ago.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Heaven_%28film%29) Great cinematography and set design representing authoritarian secularism with eloquent passion on film. The worst features of religions...fields of blood.
Getting back...what my brain heard first was the "eye of the needle" passage, (Matthew 19:24) the old bible theocratic saw paraphrased; those who are saved are inside the kingdom and those outside will be destroyed.
The zealous point of this share, I think, is all forms of Christianity will cohere nicely together within the walls of the kingdom. Inside we are all brothers and sisters reciting the Our Father together in harmony. Kumbaya. But what about me and Jeff and Martin, the Jews among us?
All this talk about the Kingdom brought back old programming - those who don't believe are second class citizens. Burn!
Au contraire mon fraire! The new pope - Pope Francis to the soul rescue. Open those gates Huffington Post!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/pope-francis-good-atheists_n_3320757.html
"The Lord created us in His image and likeness, and we are the image of the Lord, and He does good and all of us have this commandment at heart: do good and do not do evil. All of us. ‘But, Father, this is not Catholic! He cannot do good.’ Yes, he can... "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone!"...We must meet one another doing good. ‘But I don’t believe, Father, I am an atheist!’ But do good: we will meet one another there.”
Pope Francis
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