As a Christian, it's important to understand where the temple is. In the OT, the temple was place-bound. God's presence was bound to geography, and the land mattered. But that changed when God's presence came in the person of Jesus. Jesus was the mobile temple and presence of God on earth. This is a radical displacement of sacred geography -sacred space was no longer dirt, but flesh.

But now, post-resurrection, the NT speaks of the body of Christ -our bodies, individually and corporately- as the temple of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is poured out on all flesh, and the people become the place for Him. No more centralized priesthood, no more holy of holies, no more sacred dirt. He dwells in us. And while people still look at the outward things -land, walls, power- the Lord looks at the heart. Act accordingly.

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Iโ€™ve long thought that the churchโ€™s greatest mistake was teaching regular people to read. This radical skill facilitates thinking for oneself.

I donโ€™t understand. What do you mean?

He means, if they wanted to maintain their monopoly on violence and truth, they should have kept their sheep ignorant ๐Ÿ‘

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Iโ€™m so glad someone else sees this!

Jesus was (and initially catalysed) a DECENTRALISED technological and spiritual disruption of the existing CENTRALISED religion of his era and region. ๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿ’“

The church that came after though, fell quickly into the dogma of Politics and RECENTRALISATION. (Ie Rome)

Until a thousand years later when ML nailed that letter to the parish door.

Jesus (ML) would have been Bitcoin Maxis. Without a doubt. ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿคฃ