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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (201654)	9/6/2006 10:00:01 PM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) of 281500

"Beware the leaven of the Pharisees" was one of the most important instructions that Jesus passed along to his disciples. He specifically warned his apostles to avoid becoming more pious than the well studied Jewish scholars who made it their job to come up with ridiculous standards of fundamentalism. They wanted to show that their standards of law regarding their love of God was an ultimate example that other people must follow. Unfortunately, Christians did a lousy job protecting the message of loving tolerance and patience that Jesus passed along throughout the New Testament. However, the gnostic teachings of Christ are there for anyone to appreciate as they look at the true message of Jesus. No one is implying that Jesus thought they were all self righteous hypocrites, the message simply discourages Jews from going to ridiculous extremes. People forget their traditional interpretations are only human opinions. This sets the precedent for fundamentalists to prefer their love for the law of the lord vs. the Lord of the law. The message of the Lord was to avoid religious extremism. Naturally, Jesus understood that judgement is better left with God than dictated by ridiculous standards of piety. No one ever wins the game of "Who Loves God the Best". God doesn't cheer for the winners, he feels compassion for people that deserve his love. If we are going to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim people, we had start doing a lot more than talking about democracy. We need to win the religious battle by showing people like the President of Iran that the Christians and Jews of the world have an amazing expression of love for God. Maybe the West needs to open the debate on the theocratic values of the Christianity, Catholicism, and Judaism. Despite being a secular society based on capitalism and democracy, we DO embrace a tradition of religious leadership that has preserved peace and respect between Catholics, Christians, and Jews for the past 2000 years since Jesus. He created a new religious order dividing the Old Testament and the New Testament. I keep alluding to the potential reformation of the Muslim religion. We can only teach the Muslims the value of religious respect by embracing our own religious virtues.

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