While I was prepar\u00ading for this week\u2019s mes\u00adsage I came across this para\u00adgraph which I don\u2019t think is going to make it in (does\u00adn\u2019t fit the flow), but it was so good that I feel com\u00adpelled to share it with you:<\/p>\n
Dorothy Say\u00aders in her book Unpop\u00adu\u00adlar Opin\u00adions<\/i> wrote: <\/p>\n
Set\u00adting aside the scan\u00addal caused by His Mes\u00adsian\u00adic claims and His rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion as a polit\u00adi\u00adcal fire\u00adbrand, only two accu\u00adsa\u00adtions of per\u00adson\u00adal deprav\u00adi\u00adty seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sab\u00adbath-break\u00ader. Sec\u00adond\u00adly, that He was \u201ca glut\u00adto\u00adnous man and a winebib\u00adber, a friend of pub\u00adli\u00adcans and sin\u00adners\u201d \u2014 or (to draw aside the veil of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbethan Eng\u00adlish that makes it sound so much more respectable) that He ate too hearti\u00adly, drank too freely, and kept very dis\u00adrep\u00adutable com\u00adpa\u00adny, includ\u00ading grafters of the low\u00adest type and ladies who were no bet\u00adter than they should be. For nine\u00adteen and a half cen\u00adturies, the Chris\u00adt\u00adian Church\u00ades have laboured, not with\u00adout suc\u00adcess, to remove this unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate impres\u00adsion made by their Lord and Mas\u00adter. They have hus\u00adtled the Mag\u00addalens from the Com\u00admu\u00adnion-table, found\u00aded Total Absti\u00adnence Soci\u00adeties in the name of Him who made the water wine, and added improve\u00adments of their own, such as var\u00adi\u00adous bans and anath\u00ade\u00admas upon danc\u00ading and the\u00adatre-going. They have trans\u00adferred the Sab\u00adbath from Sat\u00adur\u00adday to Sun\u00adday, and, feel\u00ading that the orig\u00adi\u00adnal com\u00admand\u00adment \u201cThou shalt not work\u201d was rather half-heart\u00aded, have added to it the new com\u00admand\u00adment, \u201cThou shalt not play.\u201d<\/p>\n
So there.<\/p>\n
Now that I look at it again it may make it in after all\u2026 come and find out!<\/p>\n
By the way, this week we\u2019re con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading our \u201cJesus Is Ask\u00ading You\u2026\u201d series of mes\u00adsages with the piv\u00adotal ques\u00adtion Who Do You Say That I Am?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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