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Faith and the Church

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

What began as an extraordinary, shattering life-changing experience for a group of men who beheld and grew to desperately love the most remarkable man to ever walk the planet has denigrated into a belief system.

What began with a group of fishermen leaving behind their livelihoods in a sense of wonderment and urgency to follow a powerfully disturbing enigmatic stranger has become a ritualistic utterance of formulaic doctrine to gain entrance into a privileged club.

What began with the birth of a morality so pure that people feared the power emanating from the transformed first apostles has become a refuge for every scoundrel and confidence trickster who has ever mockingly held their hands together in prayer.