Hi, my name is @SaintPepsi ... and I am a #Christian
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I was born and raised a Christian. I've believed in God all my life. I still do. I know... I know I'm not enlightened or whatever. Christianity is what I believe in and I know why I believe in it, which is more than I can say for most of the faithless flock that are guilt ridden with issues that have been misinterpreted by trusted leaders. In this current political climate, however, I have never been so ashamed of the word Christian. I know many Christians who are good people and don't swing out into the crazy zone. However, it seems like the people with the microphones, the people who are spear heading the agenda of God (seeing as they love the word agenda so much), are the individuals who have turned the religion I once gained peace from into one of the greatest war engines for hate I have ever seen. I realize that the major factions of God fearing individuals: Christians, Muslims, Jews, all have blood on their hands for mass amounts of wars in the past. Don't jump down my throat on this one, its history. Hell, it's now! I studied this, I went to college to come be a minister (totally serious on that one) for a religion that seeks to spread the love of God. All I hear now is hate, hate, and more hate. Hate is passed off as loving the sinner, but not the sin. This is bullshit! I can smell it as soon as their mouth opens. These people actually rationalize hatred with the assumed judgment of God, a being they so easily speak for yet always seem to misquote. These miscreants steal single lines from entire books and use them as ammunition against anything they believe is against God. Bearing the cross as if they, themselves, bore the weight of the world’s sins, a weight worth 30 silver coins.
Homosexuality? Well, of course that's bad. People shouldn’t love each other! That kind of love involves “dirty” sex... but, so does heterosexual love. No way, though! Gays have an agenda to upend the church and all its teachings. I have never seen any of my gay friends try to shove their sexuality in anyone’s face. I have never on any occasion seen a gay person openly face someone and say, "I think you should be gay because it's natural and you won't burn in hell." Darker still, are the examples of certain “sins” that these advocates for hate are perpetuating. If all sin is sinful in the eyes of God, why are they always so focused on so-called sexual deviancy? Violence seems to have become just a way of life and more importantly, violence is an answer to God's intentions. Its all gotten so backwards it makes me sick to my stomach. I recently went with some gay friends of mine to a church-sponsored meeting for an amendment that will allow gays to obtain protected status in Kansas, so that homosexuals would have the same privileges as heterosexuals under the same rights as race, gender, and age. If anything, I could best describe the scenario as watching a KKK meeting where no one cared about wearing their hoods. It's practical and even morally accepted to hate homosexuality in the church. Taking the homosexual hatred out of the mix you still have a populous that seems to hang on the words of FOX news -the only “moral” news organization, the mouth piece for rationalization, the news room that turns hate and fear into money and bares the name of God down like a gavel of power.
Gandhi once said, "I like your Christ, but not your Christians," easily an applicable quote in these times. This is no longer the mad ranting of the Westboro Baptist Church. Sadder still, I live 45 minutes away from that damned (no pun intended) place. I asked a close Christian friend of mine how he feels about the direction the church is going and he said, "It's difficult. As soon as you say the word Christian people tune you out." The reality of all this is Christian churches have buried their heads so far into the sand, standing on hate and screaming, "LA, LA, LA! I can't hear you," that the people in the church whom are caring, trying to do good, and love others, cannot associate with the political brand name of Christ or God. A brand name used over and over again in politics. Currently, I think the big three religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, have become so pro-war that none of them will ever come back from it. Currently, there is no love between the children of Abraham and their future seems bleak. Why would anyone want their names connected to the mass atrocities perpetuated in the names of these houses under one God. . I'm tired of it all. From the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Israel, to the attacks on political figures, the beating of homosexuals, and the bombings on abortion clinics, all acts are rationalized by fear and intolerance and much like Anne Rice who found God and discovered that His followers are nuts.
I happen to believe in a god. I believe that there must be a starting point and that something contributed in putting all that exists together. Chastise me all you like, but believing in the brand name Christianity, Judaism, or Islam is just something I fear I cannot do anymore. It's true, I think that if Jesus comes back today and sees where his followers have taken his words through incorrect interpretation, he'd turn around and go home knowing no one had really listened to him, but instead just used his teachings as a means to an end. What was the greatest commandment again? Oh right! Love your neighbor as you would love yourself. Well, people, start loving and stop hating and maybe there will be something to salvage when the end of it all comes. Whenever that happens.
A very clever atheist and wonderfully clear commentator on things, based on his ability to say what he thinks without caring about the political correctness, posted this video. If you really want to know how the world sees the followers of God who rant and rave and spill hate with every vile word, this man shows it clearly and concisely:
Follow him @patcondell
If you like, call me a bad Christian, call me a faithless, blasphemer that will go to hell. I'll tell you this much, in a world that believes that silence equals acceptance. That judges others based on their sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, and gender, and deems only a selection of people worthy to judge others, as if God, himself, is speaking through them... well is that a brand of religion you would wear with pride?
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