Thursday, January 26, 2012

The Church Within

When Fio took catechism class years ago, she learned about the church without and the church within, the visible church and the invisible one. Just because a person's name is on a church membership list doesn't mean that person will do the right thing.

Fio isn't talking garden-variety trespassing, which, being human and born to eviln as the sparks fly upward, we all do, but big-time stuff--crimes, like, say, being an accessory to murder, which Vanessa Bulls was. Yes, this beautiful sugar-plum fairy with the long, flowing blonde hair and sweet smile knew all along that her preacher-lover was going to kill his inconvenient wife, but she didn't blow the whistle on him. In fact, she maintained her wide-eyed "we were just friends" line for a couple of years afterwards, until the cops finally broke her by promising her immunity from prosecution.

Vanessa may change her name, cut her hair, move to another city, and join another church, but she will never be a member of the church within until she realizes the error of her ways and repents in her heart.

Organized religion wasn't the problem. Vanessa was.

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