COSMIC CHRIST
“You have to begin somewhere and send down deep roots from that place. We have to go the whole way with Christ, and only then will we meet the cosmic Christ. Then we will no longer need to defend our frontiers so stubbornly, and we can see that truth can be found in the other great world religions too. I know that many people are not ready for this yet, and I have to admit that I myself took a very long time to get to this point. But why else would Jesus say so often: Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid! A large percentage of Christians are still afraid, as if God needed us to defend Gods’ work. I believe that in reality we don’t all love the Christ who is the Alpha and Omega of history; instead we love the little Jesus whom we can stick in our pockets.”
Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M. Simplicity: The Freedom of Letting Go. 1991.
COMMENT
Religion is dangerous in its concrete particulars. A world filled with people defending their boundaries rather than seeking their centers makes inevitable all manner of conflict. Every belief system, theistic or otherwise, has its own counterpart to the pocket-sized Jesus.
CS
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