As Christians and people of Eastern Orthodox faiths observe their holiest day this Sunday, one of their number has a few questions about what they think it means to follow Christ.
Christian commentator Roland Martin speaks for many.
When did it come to the point that being a Christian meant only caring about two issues, abortion and homosexuality?
Roland Martin: “I’ve grown tired of people who pimp God”Ask the nonreligious what being a Christian today means, and based on what we see and read, it’s a good bet they will say that followers of Jesus Christ are preoccupied with those two points.
Poverty? Whatever. Homelessness? An afterthought. A widening gap between the have and have-nots? Immaterial. Divorce? The divorce rate of Christians mirrors the national average, so that’s no big deal.
The point is that being a Christian should be about more than abortion and homosexuality, and it’s high time that those not considered a part of the religious right expose the hypocrisy of our brothers and sisters in Christianity and take back the faith.
Martin puts his finger on one of the reasons I and so many others have all but turned our backs on faith, and can’t be pushed into an organized religious service with a Mack truck.
…it’s troubling to listen to “Christian radio” and hear the kind of hate spewing out of the mouths of my brothers and sisters in the faith.
In fact, I’ve grown tired of people who pimp God. That’s right; we have a litany of individuals today who are holy, holy, holy, sing hallelujah, talk about how they love the Lord, but when it’s time to walk the walk, somehow the spirit evaporates.
I mean no disrespect to the people closing their businesses to celebrate Good Friday, or those joining the throngs at church on Easter Sunday. But the joy of religion is long since past for me. And until it becomes more about quietly setting the highest example for others to follow and less about judgement and scorn, it will probably remain that way.
The Bahai “religion” cannot qualify as a religion – it is a terible hotch-potch of cut and paste job of plagiarising the Qur’an and the Bible. It is a heresy which sprang from the opponents of Islam and that is why even in its formative years it is inspired by the Brits and the Brits (guess who has hichjacked the brit government at the time??? Zionists of course!) wanted to control their Muslim subjects by divide and conquer. The result is the Bahai “religion” with outlandish claims of modernity.
have a look at:
http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/3016/newmain.htm
As a political activist engaged in many volunteer activities addressing a variety of issues, I organize on the street. It is frightening to witness the complete dumbing down of the population by the fundamentalist Christian churches. The rabid right pro-war, pro-Bush Christians are unable to think logically. It is impossible to get these glaze eyed Rapture loving people to engage in a discussion about issues pertaining to how our nation and the world is going to survive given the horrendous conditions engulfing the world with war, poverty, disease, cultural decay, economic collapse etc. These Christian people display tendencies akin to mental illness in the sense that they are disengaged from reality. They think they are off the hook from any personal responsibility to address the many ills facing the world simply because they are “saved”
The fundy churches made abortion and gay rights the crucial issues during the last Presidential campaign. I can barely afford groceries anymore let alone a trip to the dentist and so on. The last thing I care about are gay issues and abortion.
Have you heard about Bush’s new health care plan????
PRAY YOU DON’T GET SICK!!!
Couple months ago two Mormon boys knocked upon my door asking me if I had ever heard of their Church…
Only around 20 to 30 years before they were born…
I explained to them that I am of Native Heritage…and that The Mormons and Tribes they crossed paths with got along fairly well.
That Mormons even participated in the Ghost Dance with Wovaca…
I said to them..In your…Book…it is written that Jesus lived with the Tribes long ago when the land was known as Turtle Island…
They said…Yes..
I said you do know there are accounts of Jesus living with Tribes long ago when it was Turtle Island from Tribes…
And they said..Yes they were aware there were such accounts…
In the Book called the Bible…Jesus did tell his Disciples after his resurrection he had to leave them to go feed sheep in other lands…before he Ascended back into the Kingdom…
Jesus did not teach..Religion…Jesus taught his Father’s Spiritual Kingdom…
If the accounts in the Mormon’s Book are correct…if the accounts & stories among Native Tribes is correct..and..If Jesus did as he said…Left his Disciples to go feed sheep in other lands…Then Jesus took on human form more than once…and has walked the earth more than once…
Cool..Huh?
In the book called the Bible..Jesus said he was going to return at a time when men thought not…
Who knows…Maybe Jesus of the Tribe of Judah..Did live & teach Tribes in Turtle Island long before it became America…that according to my reading..was patterend after the Roman Republic by those who founded America…
Senate…Mightly Legions…Taxes…
Strange world…I am just passing through this world…Having fun…
Rick, you brought tears to my eyes. I want to shake your hand, Friend.
Sparkle, Frank, please offer more guidance, I googled communitarians and hegelian dialectic and only one site popped up, dealing with liberals…care to shed some more light?
I guest if someone read all the way down to my comment then they were very patient folks ,thanks for reading this!! I just wonder if I know my Master Jesus Christ if he walked up to me and introduced himself? I guess I better just keep reading my scriptures and praying and learning more each day. Who ever you maybe I hope to meet you in the eternities and have the pleasure of knowing what you did in your life and if you knew how it would all turn out!! I’m still working it out for myself. I just know how I live and what I do with the time I have will effect my outcome into the eternities.