Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote:
>
> Gordon Fitch wrote --
>
> "Misreading is fruitful, it gives energy, it produces
> progeny. That which can't be misread is terminally fixed,
> dead. Hence the danger in misreading -- Jesus can lead to
> Torquemada and Pius XI."
>
> How much of a misreading was that?
>
Jesus did invoke the danger of hellfire, and he did say give unto
caesar,etc., which implied approval of slavery. I don't think "he" (the
character in the gospels) gave much basis for the doctrine that really
is at the center of much christian horror -- the doctrine of the
trinity. Christianity as politically conservative and a sanction to
torture is not a misreading of what is in the gospels.
Carrol