[Magdalen] Christ, the King

[ME Michaud]

We are a post-enlightenment people living in a post-enlightenment
country, We own our own bodies.

If you stand back and look at our history, you see that concept
affirmed by the Constitution and hundreds of follow-up challenges.
The RC church in the US trips over this all the time because they
only partially comprehend it.

OTOH, in a time when the king ruled absolutely, Jesus as a substitute
king, a king with more power and validity, the Real King, must have
seemed like a radical (and subversive) concept.
-M

On Saturday, November 22, 2014, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> I think one could argue that today's ambivalence toward religion in
> Western Countries may be in some measure a product of hostility toward the
> idea of a King in the sense that their (and our) ancestors believed in.
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