Christianity is a faith that has no interest in power or no meaning in an environment of power or wealth. The moral imperative is a delusion, and I think it's a distraction; Christianity is not a faith of morals or principles; it's about a relationship, service in love to God and other people. If it were about morals and virtues, I don’t think Jesus would have pissed off so many Jews; he was doing things that were considered obscene. He was doing work on the Sabbath, he was a messy angry person. He definitely wasn't guided by principles. Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws. When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.
-Sufjan Stevens
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