Re:Verse passage – 2 Peter 2:17-22 (day three)
“…the last state has become worse for them than the first.”
Few things visit wreckage upon a soul more catastrophically than religion. (And to say that religion is not needed, only Jesus is needed, is to make enemies of two that are not enemies. Religion rightly experienced is that necessary involvement of persons of faith in a common life with one another. Jesus lived within a religion; his disciples dare not eschew it.) When religion is power, when religion is guilt, when religion is self-hatred, when religion is perfectionism, when religion is exclusivity, when religion is suspicion, when religion is contempt, when religion is judgmentalism, when religion is litmus test, when it is any of these things rather than a community wearing Jesus’s easy yoke and carrying his light burden together, it will destroy the person who would have otherwise come alive.
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