A New Creation

 In ancient antiquity there existed a lot of inequality.  Income, birth, ethnicity, winners and losers.  Upper Crust Roman aristocracy were at the top.  Slaves were a the bottom.  Christianity tried to change this.  Paul, the Apostle, said they we are a "New Creation."  All are equal is what he said.  God loves everyone and Christ revealed this in practice as Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, as Christians say they believe.  But I have too often found that Christianity has grown back into inequalities while the Recovering Addicts in their meetings have learned that all are truly equal.  Addiction unites them, men, women, rich, poor, black and white and Indian and anything in between.  And many of these groups meet in the basement of churches, practicing the Christian ideal of the New Testament, while upstairs it is a rather mixed bag.