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Richard Rohr and The Universal Christ (Part 2)

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I'm Not an Ascetic but a Full Human Being

Even the Buddha played this asceticism game but when Jesus is accused by the Pharisees of not fasting and not washing your hands we see that Jesus making it very clear in his life to my ministry that he was not an ascetic either. We thought he was liberating us to be beyond human and we jumped over the growing up stage and the waking up stage in many cases and so we didn't become very human at all Carol Hausland the one I agree with she tells the story in her autobiography the Rocking Horse Catholic how she stopped going to Catholic Church for some time. She says this isn't working the transference of receiving the body of Christ and not acting like the body

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