JIM PALMER:"Christianity turned Jesus into a cosmic janitor who was supposed to come back later and clean up the human condition for us.

[brackett@mstdn.ca]

JIM PALMER:
"Christianity turned Jesus into a cosmic janitor who was supposed to come back later and clean up the human condition for us.
That fantasy has infantilized generations of people waiting for rescue instead of confronting themselves, confronting reality, and taking responsibility for what kind of world we are creating. If God and Jesus are floating somewhere above the clouds waiting for the right prophetic timetable to intervene, then humanity is finished. Because history makes one thing painfully obvious: nobody is coming to save us from ourselves. Newsflash: We screwed this up. Only we can fix it.
Jesus was already here once.
The world did not magically transform because a divine personality appeared on earth.
We've been waiting on Jesus for 2,000 years to return and save the world. Unfortunately, we don't have another 2,000 years or even 200 to wait."
- Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy
Image: thanks to Mike Schaeffer