We’re going to have to come up with an award for you, my dear. You’re the first visitor to USojo, as far as we know, to take it upon themselves to read them some UB; and you chose the Forward! —Absolutely some of the toughest sledding on the planet, literature-wise, and in the UB, too.

But a clarification: The Urantia Book is not The Urantian Sojourn, and vise-versa. The Sojourn is just the name of this blog; the Book is a thing unto itself; we just read it, and love it, and recognize it as the name of our planet, hence, “Urantian sojourn,” our time here on the crazy World of the Cross.

And now a second award for you figuring out on your own that Christianity doesn’t own Jesus! We’re mightily impressed, I can tell you, and extend a helping hand to you publicly and privately with your study of the Book; You Rock, girlfriend!

I live here in the bible belt, where probably the biggest “Christian” hypocrites live. The place with the biggest mega chuches anywhere. I used to be a limo driver here, and a lot of my clients were these so-called preachers, picking them up from private airports from their private planes and bringing them either to the teevee studio to beg money from people on fixed incomes, or to their multi-million dollar homes. I never really got into organized religion in the first place but, after seeing how they live and treat other people, I can say that I do not like these phonies. And phony is being polite.

I do believe in Jesus Christ. I have my own relationship with our Lord. I do not believe that you need a church to be Christian.
But I will say, after reading the forward to your book, then onward, I think I’m at where it is what does Jesus believe, Thank you. Your book is helping me to try and understand things that I’ve been wrestling with for a long time now. And I haven’t even gotten very far.

So, there you go. My rant on organized religion.

S

The molecules of dust we occasionally wipe off our furniture were once alive.

Thanks for your thoughts, Michael.

S

Happy Sunday!