Just as St. Stephen said to the Priests and Pharisees:
"'You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the holy spirit. just as your ancestors used to do. Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.'" Acts 7:51,52 (NRSV)
And they stoned him.
So the Fundamentalist and Evangelical Priests of Jesus own Church have become the descendants of those who killed him.
They oppose any incentives to help the poor, they deny God's mercy and forgiveness, and they persecute any prophetic voices, just as their predecessors did.
This is why the Kingdom never comes.
Because the Priests of God's own Churches betray Him.
[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.]
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