{"id":14198,"date":"2013-07-02T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/?p=14198"},"modified":"2013-07-02T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T12:17:08","slug":"the-lost-influence-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/2013\/07\/the-lost-influence-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"the lost influence of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_14199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14199\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nakedpastor.etsy.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14199\" title=\"new kind of stone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2013\/07\/new-kind-of-stone-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"jesus in therapy cartoon by nakedpastor david hayward\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CLICK TO SHOP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Everyone with any sense knows that we accept the acceptable words of Jesus and appropriate his unacceptable words in altered forms. That is, we use his sayings if they are agreeable, and we reject or theologically undermine the ones that aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Even philosophers such as Slavoj \u017di\u017eek are aware of this trick. He tells the story of a conference he was at where he asked a Catholic priest what Jesus meant by \u201c<em>unless you hate your mother and father you cannot be my disciple<\/em>\u201d and the priest waffled and said he wasn\u2019t prepared to answer such a difficult question. \u017di\u017eek responded by saying, \u201c<em>Fuck you! You\u2019ve had over 2,000 years to figure this out!<\/em>\u201d That\u2019s because the priest, as representative of the church, knew that Jesus\u2019 saying is too difficult to do. That is, Jesus redefined what family is and that unless we are willing to challenge our most precious ideologies (read \u201cidols\u201d), such as family, then we cannot follow him. Unless we free ourselves of our assigned and assumed groups and ideologies, we are not free at all.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was called a stumbling stone because he himself admitted that people would fall over things he said. Well, we just don\u2019t want to do that anymore. Instead, the church uses Jesus in ways that secure, sustain, validate and endorse its own agenda.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I invite you to join our online community, <a href=\"http:\/\/thelastingsupper.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Lasting Supper<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone with any sense knows that we accept the acceptable words of Jesus and appropriate his unacceptable words in altered forms. That is, we use his sayings if they are agreeable, and we reject or theologically undermine the ones that aren\u2019t. Even philosophers such as Slavoj \u017di\u017eek are aware of this trick. 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