Worth repeating: scarfdad's historical Jesus

[scarfman]

scarfdad spent a few years right out of high school in a Jesuit monastery. When I was growing up in Omaha, where Creighton University is, it seemed to me like he knew every second Jesuit in the world. But during the seventies, eighties and nineties he lost his faith in the Catholic Church as an organization, and went searching for the root of Christianity to try and find out what Jesus Christ really taught unfiltered by corporate corruption - a sort of believer's historical Jesus. Many years of research has led him to the conclusion that we've been getting it wrong all this time. Jesus taught not forgiveness but tolerance, between which there's a subtle but important distinction: Forgiveness requires that a judgment be passed and tolerance requires that it not be.

first posted August 11, 2007