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Christianity and the Cult of Innocence

Learning How to See with Brian McLaren

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Do I Stay Christian?

Richard Dawkins: The idea of christianity as a cult of innocence is triply ironic. He says jesus was happy to not say, "Yes, i'm the very definition of good" And that's just major, major insight into how we've misinterpreted and misused christianity in this first two thousand year period. We worship a wounded man,. we said, in his wounds or our salvation. But much of our moral concentration is on provin we're not wounded, were not guilty, were not wrong, were not bad.

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