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July 7, 2013

How Jesus invented individual liberty

My thesis this morning is that the entire idea of individual liberty was invented by Jesus of Nazareth. Literally no one in the world, Jew or Gentile, had conceived of individual, personal liberty before Jesus. -- Donald Sensing @ Sense of Events

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 7, 2013 11:26 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Love this. Thank you.

Posted by: Leslie at July 7, 2013 2:30 PM

Excellent thesis, and well proved by D. Sensing, but people like to forget that there is One Hell of a difference between shitcanning your duties and your family for your own fun vs. following the hard, and narrow, path of The Lord. Play with fire and you get burned (forever).

In lieu of a miraculous call of God, just take care of your family and your dead, not your "bucket list".

Posted by: Gray at July 7, 2013 9:20 PM

Riiight. And what happens now, in highly Christianity-dominated communities? Just the same as happened in Judea at the time of Christ. Obligated to go to certain places at certain times, worth defined by chastity or lack thereof, under strict orders from birth to death about all manner of matters from someone wearing funny clothes of one sort or another.

What would Jesus do right now, if he came back and saw the Vatican?

Posted by: Fletcher Christian at July 8, 2013 3:33 AM

Fletcher, there is an old saying among us ordained: "Jesus called forth the Kingdom of God. But he had to settle for the Church."

But related to your comment, coming on July 14 my topic will be, "I Come to Praise Hypocrites, Not to Bury Them."

Our problem is not that we Christians are too often accused of hypocrisy. It is that we are failing to offer enough evidence to support the charge.

Posted by: Donald Sensing at July 8, 2013 7:20 AM

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