This is a tough topic for a Sunday sermon.
Especially, given the spiritual naivete of humans only knowledgeable about one of Creation's droplets.
When is humanity going to stop fashioning God in its image?
Will it take colonizing its first solar system or encountering a truly righteous species?
What a shock that would be: discovering another species who didn't get it wrong.
I suspect there are still many terrible trials that humanity must endure to learn to listen to God clearly.
You might say that there is a long spiritual evolutionary trek for humanity to travel.
It is unlikely that the hubris that Godwill lift some to heaven will ever be true.
Ignoring an unfolding fossil record leads to arrogance, like scales such a perspective must fall away.
Human traditions seem to encourage scales to cover the eyes meant to see God as God is.
The first step in such a spiritual evolution is a close scrutiny of what in the secular world that needs to change: who belongs in power and who doesn't.
The next step is empowering everyone to have a real say in the social rules.
Yes, monkeys and apes are not the same as human beings, but the evidence available about God's method of creation is minuscule from one single planet in observable cosmic sea 92 billion light years wide.
Christianity is far from a righteous lifestyle, so far.
