In Chirst alone

WAS JESUS PART OF THE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT?   "Jesus has often seemed to be 'domesticated' in the Churches, turned almost into the representative of the religio-political systems, justifying everything in its dogma, worship and canon law: the invisible head of a very clearly visible ecclesiastical machinery, the guarantor of whatever has come into existence by way of belief, morals and discipline.    What an enormous amount he has been made to authorize and sanction in Church and society in the course of Christendom's two thousand years! How Christian rulers and princes of the Church, Christian parties, classes, races have invoked him!   For what odd ideas, laws, traditions, customs, measures he has had to take the blame! Against all varied attempts to domesticate him, therefore, it must be made clear: Jesus did not belong to the ecclesiastical and social establishment." -- Hans Kung, On Being A Christian, 1978, p. 177.   Jon Zens in Christ alone cheers, amen..narrowway, few there be?