Jesus built what I think of as an empathy time bomb. He lit a slow-burning fuse -- then left. Whatever you believe about how Jesus left -- be it via death, resurrection or flying into the clouds -- what he left behind remains: the accelerated pace of the evolution of our ethical consciousness. Essentially Jesus said: To hell with mere survival. Choose to evolve into a new and better animal! What Jesus triggered was an inexorable shift to a higher level of ethics that eventually changed the trajectory of human history. Love, fairness, opportunity, freedom and goodness eventually begin to trump mere survival and brute power.
-- Frank Schaeffer, Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God, p. 56
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