Recently the Amish community had to bury the bodies of young innocent girls because of a gunman who killed them at the West Nickel Mine Amish School. Though it is a tragedy, one should note how the Amish community responded to it. They show no signs of hatred or vengence, but they do what they’ve been taught, which is forgiveness of their enemies and treating them as friends. The Amish community not only comforts the victims of the girls who were killed, but also comforts the family of the gunman who took his own life at the school. This is something all Christians should look at and consider how petty our little grudges and hatreds are in comparison to what this Amish community has faced.
I also have another issue I wish to address today and has continued to really piss me off. That is the issue of the Christian Right, or Christian Conservatives of this country. Whenever I see them on the news or read about them, it is infuriating how these supposed Christians are treating everyone in the world. Throughout history, they’ve only shown signs of intolerance, and has been the main reason why I distanced myself from this particular religion. I admit that I have not read the whole Bible, but something tells me that these Christian Right have not read the Bible either, or at least the parts they choose to read are the ones that they benefit from the most. The Christian Right are responsible for protests against abortion, homosexuals, Amish and basically anything that is not parallel to their beliefs. I cannot stand these people for a moment, even if they are fellow Christians. What brings me to this certain rant is an article that I read on Fred Phelps, if you don’t know who he is then get to know him, because he is the pastor at an anti-gay Kansas church who has held protests in the most inappropriate places. In response to homosexuals in America, they held posters that stated something like, “God hates gays” or “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” at the funerals of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq that were sent back home. I’ve said this once, and I’ll say it again, the people I find the most annoying are my fellow Christians, mainly because we do not do what we say we would or do something totally immoral with no regrets and say it was told to them by the Bible. I can only feel deep hatred for these people, but then I read how the Amish community responded to their continuous hate crimes against them, and my feelings of hatred slowly diminished. I still choose not to be associated to Fred Phelps, and his Christian Right buddies, but I have to learn not to give in to extreme levels of hatred.
Jesus told us to love each other as he loved us. That’s the most important commandment that he gave us to keep, and we can’t even do that.
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There will always be more ignorant people than people with some sense.
Fred Phelps is ridiculously ignorant. In America, I think that often, ironically the most conservative Christians are the meanest people.
"Don't Settle for what somebody else's idea of the real world is. Pick your own real world" - Kevin Smith
It is indeed ironic how fundamentalists in every religion are violent to the point of insanity. Guess that's also what happens when one OD on drug. There is the saying that religion is the opiate of the masses. They can't afford heroin, so they got religious heroes and heroines.
This is just crazy talk, of course.
You go guy!