The operative image of God for
most Christians (except for the mystics) is a powerful monarch, usually an old
white man sitting on a throne. It’s no accident that the Latin word for God, Deus, came
from the same root as Zeus. At the risk of shocking you, let me say that
Christianity hasn’t moved much beyond the mythological image of Zeus. Yet this
is not the image of God revealed to us by Jesus—a vulnerable baby born in an
occupied and oppressed land; a refugee; a humble carpenter whose friends were
fishermen, prostitutes, and tax-collectors; a political criminal executed on a
cross. In other words, Jesus shows a vulnerable God much more than the almighty one
Christians often assume. – Richard Rohr
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