If I want to claim the right to think for myself and make my own decisions, it follows that I cannot interfere with the right of others to do the same. If I attempt to interfere with the free will of another person, I am causing harm to them and to myself. What is harmless can only be determined by the person thinking about his actions in the moment according to circumstances.
That is the basic reason why a religion cannot become a legal system and still claim any spiritual base. Anything that is not based on free will cannot be spiritual, it can only be the law.
What I would like to happen is for the legal structure of Christianity to collapse, and for Christianity to be re-born based on the teachings of Jesus free of any legal structure.
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Since my understanding of the teachings of Jesus is that Jesus taught the gnostic principles of truth from within and free-will, this would mean a revival of Gnostic Christianity after 2,000 years of suppression.
20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the Kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! For, behold, the Kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17 20 (KJV)
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