On Page 7 of The Cavalier Chronicle is the paper’s weekly homily, entitled The Supreme Ruler. Here it is: God exalted Jesus so the world would confess Jesus is Lord. Every knee will bend before Jesus. Every person will declare that Jesus is Lord. This has not happened yet. Help bring it about in church this week as you confess Jesus is Lord. . . . Jesus Christ is Lord. Philippians 2: 5-11.
My response: God the Father and God the Mother will exalt whom they will, and humble whom they will. Is Jesus Lord. He certainly is a mighty deity, and worthy of love, devotion, respect, and obedience.
It is less important for me who is The Supreme Ruler than it is that a believer worship a benevolent deity, however exalted or modest, and I think, despite what was written, 2000 years ago, Jesus the Divinity, the Moderate and the Individualist would not have a problem if someone worshiped Allah or Mother Earth.
The new, progressive, more peace-creating religious stance—which I support--is that followers of the various benevolent deities move from being hostile, mutually exclusive, and at times violently competitive with rival denominations and faiths and adopt a relationship based on mutual inclusiveness, peaceful tolerance, coexistence, cooperation, and mutual affection.
They can continue to agree to disagree about which deity is the one, the truest, the most real and that is supreme overall all other deities, but no longer will they take up the sword to make their point.
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