The crucial question, then, is this: Is there any help to be found in the religion of Jesus that can be of value here? It is utterly beside the point to examine here what the religion of Jesus suggests to those who would be helpful to the disinherited. That is ever in the nature of special pleading. No man wants to be the object of his fellow’s

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Traditional religious faith sacralizes some past event or set of events to which believers are to stay faithful or believe in. Those events are ritualized, institutionalized, and mythologized. The faithful tell the same stories or myths over and over again and reenact them in the theater of ritual, festival, architecture, and institution. The

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