Religion and politics
Sir.—lan Hunter, writing of Malcolm Muggeridge, says, “No doubt Christ’s rather scruffy, ragtag band of followers, with their own power seekers, egomaniacs, and, of course, Judas, upset some of the more sensitive Galileans of His day. But Christ deserves to be judged for Himself, on His own, not on the basis of His 12 hand-picked disciples, still. less by His ostensible representatives 20 centuries later.” Arthur May (September 17) continually uses the smokescreen’of the Church’s failings to condemn Jesus. But might not the Church's failings just as easily justify Jesus? The sordid story of Christian involvement ’in politics, with its resultant compromises, does not mean
that Jesus ever encouraged such involvement. Jesus talked about something else — the individual's relationship with God. That includes Mr May, who should consider the possibility that life is to be found in Jesus, though often not in the Church. Does God stop loving us just because some ostensible followers are full of hate?— Yours, etc.. R. M. ANDERSON. September 17. 1982.
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