Why are most "Christians" conservative Republican, homophobes, who never listen to any arguement against their alleged faith, but dismiss all as being of the devil? and of these things they will have no part. Not even to give a logical arguement against it. Rather they hide in their holes and say that "you just have to have faith" and leave the world to it's own apostasy. Why do they claim to follow Jesus yet never take up their cross? Why is a message that has to do with blood, sweat and tears, turned into stained glass pictures of crosses and doves? I promise you that the cross was not smooth, and Jesus probably wasn't white, and he probably wasn't very pretty. So why has Christianity been portrayed in this way?
The reason is the failure of the Western Church to accept the true message of the gospel. They have taken on a lifestyle of "cheap grace." They take salvation but never live by faith. They look for fire insurance instead of a relationship with their Savior. Instead of dying to themselves for love, they love themselves and simply take the salvation without any faith in the blood and love of Jesus. What Christ calls a man to is death to himself. It should be something challenging, every day, the hearts of a man. What the Western Church has turned it into however is a easy way out of Hell. They only care about the numbers that get into thier churches instead of loving people the way Jesus did. This is wrong. They want to have in their church pious conservatives, who won't think or fight the sysstem if it's wrong. They want pavlovian dogs who will respond to the calls of the Church. Who will stand, sit, sing, raise hands, only when called upon. Instead of living in the freedom of the love of Christ they exist in a society of legalism, which they claim to have been freed from, yet submit themsleves to this new legalism every day.
This is How Jesus has been put with the Unicorns. The Western Church has made Him is a distant mythical creature who we look at and say is pretty and then put him back on the shelf as we go through our lives. This is not however the person of Christ. But this is how the USA has become dissillusioned with him. Those who are true followers take up their cross and love people no matter who they are. I hate it when people say "let's just nuke Iran and get it over with." Or when they try to avoid certain groups of people. This is not the love or hope of Jesus. Jesus talked with those who were deemed unacceptable by society. He was with those who were needy. With the prostitute and the beggar. He didn't limit his social cricle to those in high positions.
So that is my rant against the Western Church, although their are exceptions to this, most churches I see are political realms rather than places of spiritual growth and love. This hower does not deliniate any authority of Christianity, because what most of the Western Church publicises in not actually Real Christianity.
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Good post. Christianity is hijacked. They use religion to fit their personal views and projects. They just throw out the teachings of Jesus because they don't fit. It is hypocrisy and is exactly what Jesus points out.
I think you are refering to those like Pat Buchanan and Jerry Fallwell. Most Christians aren't as you say. I am Christian and I believe in justice and compromises, and that every one is beautiful
I agree that all people are beautiful, but they are still evil, and this is very true in the Western Church. Have you ever examind the way churches work here in America? far too often they are concerned with numbers of people and the quantity of finances rather than how the spirit moves. Too many times are numbers mistaken for the spirit moving. We want the biggest building, the biggest ministry, the best music, the brightest lights, the best stage, and forget about why we are supposed to gather together. Of course not many people will admit this, especially on a Sunday morning, but examining how people live their lives day to day, outside of Sunday, their lives dont match up.