The Jesus of history would love them all. What Jesus really said, and what he meant, are the subjects of culture's greatest controversies, but one thing is sure. Jesus gave preferential treatment to society's outcasts. Lepers, tax collectors, prostitutes -- all would attain heaven before the ordained elites. Jesus believed that God was about to right the world's wrongs with a great upheaval -- soon -- and at that time, a radical reversal of the social order would occur. As he says in the gospels, the meek will inherit the earth. |
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