"Jesus himself was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, and the sacrifice to end all sacrifices. No one had ever heard of anything like this. So the Romans called them athiests because what the Christians were saying about spiritual reality could not be classified with the other religions of the world. The irony of this should not be lost on us - to most people in our society, Christianity is religion and moralism.
Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day ... if the preaching of our ministers and practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did."
Tim Keller, Prodigal God, p. 13-14; 16
Christianity is not supposed to be about "good-and-bad," "right-and-wrong," "them-and-us" moralism. This is an unusual expectation in religions.
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