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Christian practices and rituals for the most part today are not based on what Christ actually taught and instructed his disciples to do. The only organized ritual that Jesus asked his disciples to observe was that of sharing a family style meal together, similar to the Last Supper, in remembrance of him and his teachings. Christ never told his disciples to remember him by building huge churches with Masses officiated by a male only priesthood with confessionals for your sins. Christ never told his disciples to remember him by enforcing an Apostle's Creed based on the doctrinal interpretations of those in power in the Church centuries after his passings. Christ never told his disciples to remember him by incorporating the Judaic Old Testament writings into a book about his teachings. Christ never told his disciples to remember him by only putting some of the collected writings of his oral traditions written down by others decades after his passing into a book; while, excluding others writings the prevailing Church authorities did not like because they did not have the preferred spin on events.
What Christ did do was ask
his disciples to take up a new celebratory practice to remember him and his
teachings by. It was that of a shared communal meal in a home where the
followers of early Christianity were to gather together and break
bread together, drink wine, and discuss his teachings.
This shared communal meal in which men and women were equal participants was meant to replace the ritualized bloody slaughter of innocent animals in the temple as a proprietary offering and other unenlightened Judaic practices and rituals at that time. That was why Christ told his disciples at the Last Supper that the bread was his body and the wine was his blood and to break bread and drink wine in remembrance of him. For four decades the followers of early Christianity meet in homes to share a communal meal together in remembrance of Jesus and his teachings just as he had instructed his followers to do at the Last Supper. Then there was a power struggle between male and female followers which resulted in the men deciding to move the communal meal out of the home into a separate building with males only officiating at the ceremonial celebration.
From those early days of
unwillingness to share religious power with women, Christianity mutated into an
organized religion with rigid beliefs run by a male only priesthood officiating
at Masses and Sacraments that were never part of the true teachings of Christ...
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