Christians
have a PR problem. Even though billions are dumped into the passed plates
at least once every seven days, the brand is fading. Could it be that too
little of that largesse is making it back into the community?
Maybe. Maybe it's because of too many instances of pederasty, lechery,
buggery, wartime profiteering and oh-my-gosh that Hitler guy really was a bad guy. Wise men and women know
that the maiden-form of the faith is flawless even if its many derivatives and
their acolytes are not.
To wit, Christian fundamentalists are as exothermic as any madrasa-boy. Think: abortion clinic bombings. It only takes a perceived crisis of Biblical proportion for them to bare their teeth at all enemies both foreign and domestic. In the past, they would have sent an army of their own to quell the infidels. Ahh, the good ol' days.
Warmed by their cloaks of denial and conjoined by their pinhole view of the world, it seems modern Christians are bereft of perspective and what it is to be human and more importantly--humane. Think: English laundries staffed by unpaid Irish unwed mothers presided over by semi-celibate nuns?
Western civilization owes everything to the Mother Church's measurable sins of omission. Everything we enjoy in our American culture of unchecked avarice we owe to the Church's dictum of controlling access to the hereafter. Need forgiveness? That'll cost you. If you can pay, you can play. Otherwise, clasp your hands together, step right up here on this pile of kindling and you wouldn't happen to have a light, would you?
The current paradigm of Christendom is nothing more or less than the normal accretion of faith into hereafter insurance. Thus the PR problem. Other competing brands of salvation have dulled the once shiny facade of Christianity. No more clear broth for the faithful, only a hearty stew of ideas on what it is to be alive in a world full of heretics. No more looking up in wonder at some grand medieval cathedral without thinking, "This must have cost a fortune?"
If we are to abide in a faith as written that all are precious in His sight and if we are to lay claim to Jesus' example, follow his deeds and heed his words, shouldn't we all be in full possession of the skill-set to love one another for who we are warts and all? Didn't they teach us that in Sunday school?
If Christianity is to survive, it has to stand right-wise to the sword of truth. There simply is no other way. Science is not our enemy. The only thing ever lost to science is ignorance. Science reveals while religion obscures via the epithetical notion of God's will as yet unrevealed. Gimme a break.
The truly faithful have nothing to fear from the truth. They welcome it. But, to continue with hatred for others paraded and parroted as a righteous mindset is to consign Jesus to the league of arcane and archaic deities along with Zarathustra and Baal. Just sayin...
To wit, Christian fundamentalists are as exothermic as any madrasa-boy. Think: abortion clinic bombings. It only takes a perceived crisis of Biblical proportion for them to bare their teeth at all enemies both foreign and domestic. In the past, they would have sent an army of their own to quell the infidels. Ahh, the good ol' days.
Warmed by their cloaks of denial and conjoined by their pinhole view of the world, it seems modern Christians are bereft of perspective and what it is to be human and more importantly--humane. Think: English laundries staffed by unpaid Irish unwed mothers presided over by semi-celibate nuns?
Western civilization owes everything to the Mother Church's measurable sins of omission. Everything we enjoy in our American culture of unchecked avarice we owe to the Church's dictum of controlling access to the hereafter. Need forgiveness? That'll cost you. If you can pay, you can play. Otherwise, clasp your hands together, step right up here on this pile of kindling and you wouldn't happen to have a light, would you?
The current paradigm of Christendom is nothing more or less than the normal accretion of faith into hereafter insurance. Thus the PR problem. Other competing brands of salvation have dulled the once shiny facade of Christianity. No more clear broth for the faithful, only a hearty stew of ideas on what it is to be alive in a world full of heretics. No more looking up in wonder at some grand medieval cathedral without thinking, "This must have cost a fortune?"
If we are to abide in a faith as written that all are precious in His sight and if we are to lay claim to Jesus' example, follow his deeds and heed his words, shouldn't we all be in full possession of the skill-set to love one another for who we are warts and all? Didn't they teach us that in Sunday school?
If Christianity is to survive, it has to stand right-wise to the sword of truth. There simply is no other way. Science is not our enemy. The only thing ever lost to science is ignorance. Science reveals while religion obscures via the epithetical notion of God's will as yet unrevealed. Gimme a break.
The truly faithful have nothing to fear from the truth. They welcome it. But, to continue with hatred for others paraded and parroted as a righteous mindset is to consign Jesus to the league of arcane and archaic deities along with Zarathustra and Baal. Just sayin...
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