Two millennia after Jesus taught, Christ-like change is beginning to infuse the world at many levels more widely than ever before. So why does it seem as if so many Christians still fail to grasp the essential truth of our faith: inclusion and justice? Maybe our blindness started when the first Christians didn't believe what Jesus told them about the kingdom of God: "Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within in" (Luke 17:21, emphasis added). Irrespective of Jesus' teaching we continue to tie faith to doctrine, geography, nation, male prerogatives, homophobia and race. It is as if we've rewritten Jesus' saying as: "They shall say, Lo here! And, Lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is only found in correct doctrine believed by the chosen few of our tribe!"
-- Frank Schaeffer, Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God, p. 55
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