The 11th Commandment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you're using religion to marginalize the lives of others, you're doing it wrong. Over time, I've seen more and more people who claim to walk\u00a0with\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The 11th Commandment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you're using religion to marginalize the lives of others, you're doing it wrong. Over time, I've seen more and more people who claim to walk\u00a0with\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Naked Jesus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-09T04:24:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-03-26T03:43:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/665\/2016\/03\/NEW-TNJ-20.fw_.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John O'Keefe\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John O'Keefe\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/\",\"name\":\"The 11th Commandment\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-09T04:24:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-03-26T03:43:16+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/470b7ef2d4c1360a8e82d7365ed930c3\"},\"description\":\"If you're using religion to marginalize the lives of others, you're doing it wrong. Over time, I've seen more and more people who claim to walk\u00a0with\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The 11th Commandment\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/\",\"name\":\"The Naked Jesus\",\"description\":\"A Journey Out of Christianity and Into Christ\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/470b7ef2d4c1360a8e82d7365ed930c3\",\"name\":\"John O'Keefe\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2947b9bd8574adba50aa6a102b862c?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2947b9bd8574adba50aa6a102b862c?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"John O'Keefe\"},\"description\":\"John O'Keefe's new book is DISRUPT: Everything Changes will make you think differently about a great deal of what the church teaches. He is also the author of The Naked Jesus; A Journey Out of Christianity and Into Christ, and three other books. John is the Founding\/Lead Pastor at PIVOT [pivotlnk.com]. He holds an Mdiv from Drew University in Madison New Jersey and a DMin in Future Studies from George Fox University, Portland Seminary, in Washington. You can follow John on Facebook @ The Naked Jesus.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/author\/ginkworld\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The 11th Commandment","description":"If you're using religion to marginalize the lives of others, you're doing it wrong. Over time, I've seen more and more people who claim to walk\u00a0with","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The 11th Commandment","og_description":"If you're using religion to marginalize the lives of others, you're doing it wrong. Over time, I've seen more and more people who claim to walk\u00a0with","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/","og_site_name":"The Naked Jesus","article_published_time":"2016-03-09T04:24:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-03-26T03:43:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":576,"url":"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/665\/2016\/03\/NEW-TNJ-20.fw_.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"John O'Keefe","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"John O'Keefe","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/","name":"The 11th Commandment","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-03-09T04:24:20+00:00","dateModified":"2016-03-26T03:43:16+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/470b7ef2d4c1360a8e82d7365ed930c3"},"description":"If you're using religion to marginalize the lives of others, you're doing it wrong. Over time, I've seen more and more people who claim to walk\u00a0with","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The 11th Commandment"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/","name":"The Naked Jesus","description":"A Journey Out of Christianity and Into Christ","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/470b7ef2d4c1360a8e82d7365ed930c3","name":"John O'Keefe","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2947b9bd8574adba50aa6a102b862c?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce2947b9bd8574adba50aa6a102b862c?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"John O'Keefe"},"description":"John O'Keefe's new book is DISRUPT: Everything Changes will make you think differently about a great deal of what the church teaches. He is also the author of The Naked Jesus; A Journey Out of Christianity and Into Christ, and three other books. John is the Founding\/Lead Pastor at PIVOT [pivotlnk.com]. He holds an Mdiv from Drew University in Madison New Jersey and a DMin in Future Studies from George Fox University, Portland Seminary, in Washington. You can follow John on Facebook @ The Naked Jesus.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/author\/ginkworld\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":460,"date":"2016-03-08T22:24:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T04:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/?p=459"},"modified":"2016-03-25T22:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T03:43:16","slug":"the-11th-commandment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thenakedjesus\/2016\/03\/the-11th-commandment\/","title":{"rendered":"The 11th Commandment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

$\"NEW-TNJ-20.fw\"$ <\/a>If you\u2019re using religion to marginalize the lives of others, you\u2019re doing it wrong. Over time, I\u2019ve seen more and more people who claim to walk\u00a0with Christ, push others aside. They marginalize those around them. If, those around them, don\u2019t think they way they do \u2013 they are wrong, they are not worthy of friendship \u2013 they are not worthy to be called \u201cChristian.\u201d But, it is deeper than that; many who claim to be followers of Christ marginalize the poor, the hurting, the needy, those they see as different \u2013 because of sexuality, because of skin color, national origins, and so many other reasons.<\/p>\n

I have struggled with this for\u00a0 long time, because I see people as people \u2013 those in need, those hurting, those in poverty, those who have a different sexual identity are simply people. People struggling to live this crazy life; people seeking to love, and be loved. Over time, I\u2019ve seen\u00a0people pushed aside, marginalized in so many ways \u2013 it hurts, it causes me to be sad.<\/p>\n

I would challenge anyone\u00a0to point out any where Jesus told us to marginalize anyone, for any reason. Jesus spent his time welcoming people, even those who didn\u2019t desire to be welcomed. He always gave people the opportunity to see the love and acceptance of the Divine and move their lives ahead.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"