Sometimes things can seem right but they aren't. Things can be for the right reasons but they're wrong. People look for end days, yet one of the signs is that end times things get twisted and distorted. So I was just listening the last few weeks, and especially the last few days, and thought I would write this. I'm not saying that I am innocent of all of these myself. Naturally, me being Christian I look at things from that perspective, which seems to differ somewhat to what I hear and see, so much so that I get asked sometimes what my beliefs are.
I hear a lot of people call for justice. That isn't Christian. Shakespeare once said in a play, "That in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation. So we pray for mercy". If we use that rule of total justice with no mercy, it is the very opposite of Christianity. I'm not saying let the hardened criminal go free, but we seem to apply that hard core justice to everybody no matter the offense, save for ourselves. In schools there is zero tolerance. These red light cams, zero tolerance. Perhaps the makers and maintains of this laws, after all the Bible does say that you will be judged by the manner and standards you judge by. You may very well judge yourself by another, provided you know that the minute you compare yourself to another, you've already fell way short.
I also hear a lot of talk about the politicians discussing ending entitlement programs and assistance programs. A country is judged by the poorest people and older people and how they are treated. Just like when I went looking for a job I looked at the parking lots to see what kinds of vehicles employees drove. The top 10 % and the lower 10% . I eliminated and went by the average. You will always have some that abuse the system and some that want to live that way. You also have those who abuse the system and are the top 10%. We see the starving children commercials that feature other countries, yet fail to see that 1 in 4 of our own kids go to bed hungry every night. That 50 million people are hungry. I know we delve into fat a lot, or politically correct term, obese. When the body is full of food without the proper nutrition it is possible to actually starve with a full belly. By the grace of God we haven't needed assistance, but as the old people said, "There by the grace of God go I." It isn't Christian to starve people or walk past someone who is hungry.
You have the pride things these days a lot too going around. Be proud, yet "Pride goeth before a fall". I know that one all too well. I can tell you too that the higher you climb in that pride the further down you will fall and the harder the hit. Pride is not part of Christianity either. Patriotism is good but it isn't part of Christianity either. There is a hierarchy to go by and that one places third in my list, God, family, then country. Pride in your work is a good thing, provided you know that it is by God's grace you are able to do that work.
I want to get back to older people for a moment. I know from delivering the hospital areas a lot of what goes on. Drug Reps sometimes leave samples and the doctors distribute them out. Guess who almost always asks for samples. The wealthy ones and ones who can afford them. I use to hear nurses and doctors fuss about that all the time. Now here we have an old person, a car or material thing of the same age is priceless, yet they aren't? These people have fought, bled, worked their butts off. They, not the rich or politicians (also rich) have built this country, and they are forced to pick between eating and their medicine. Oh yea, that ain't Christian either. These people also cared enough about you to raise you. I think honoring the parent thing might come in here.
Now lets get to the crippled and wounded, either from allowing multinational corporations to abuse them and especially service men and women. I have to put the multinational part in corporation because I once said corporation and had a few people scream because the owned a small business. Hint, if you are reading this you ain't one of them. Now maybe it was from their ignorance and maybe not, either way, their crippled and maimed. Then there are those born with disabilities. I would love to be shown a scripture in the Bible where these people are not loved and shown compassion. "There but by the grace of God go I."
So now we come to the abortion part. I don't think I have a say in it since I'm a male and it's not my child. I think it's sad, but I know that God knows the woman's heart and circumstances of that decision. I know that I am not to be her judge. Is it murder, yes, but it's also murder to starve that child later or force that child and their parents to take shots that raise the chance of Autism. I think it's murder to abduct and part of children and sell their organs. I think it's murder to have roughly 2,000 children go missing each day in the USA and a damn shame that the Missing Kid's Network doesn't have a total other than 2002. You know what amazes me? If that many people really got that upset, why are there kids who desperately need a home. Where are all these concerned Christians?
Now there is something terribly wrong when a political party attempts to claim Jesus, and actually, He is what Christianity is based upon. I think it is bad when people scream to give the tip top a tax break, we tried Trickle Down Economics with Regan and it didn't work. But where does the people get the wrong ideas on Christianity? It's pretty simple really, the Christian Right and the Government. If this was on my board I'd give links to each thing here, but it ain't, so Google it. There is something wrong when in 2008 the fall of the market wiped out people's plans, but many in Congress and Senate made at the least millions. There is something bad wrong if you go to church and hear politics, which is anti-Christian. Might want to check out what Jesus had to say about the profession of politics.
Well my rant is about over. If you've made it this far I'll go out with a bang. Did you ever read the history of Germany, before the Nazis? The fall of Rome? We're treading down that path right now. Get religion behind it and a man will not question what atrocities they are asked of. Change a belief and you control that man... or woman. If we pray for the Second Coming look around at the ones who are lost, then look in the mirror. Do you really want that? If you are a Christian you will not. I learned something that night and one thing stays with me. Everybody that yells god may just be the wrong god, and the Bible says there are more than one god. I watch whom I pray with, but never for.
My thoughts is that the Heaven that the Christian Right and Left pray for, and the god they pray to, is going to be a very lonely place. One I care not to go and one I care not to worship. They will be the only one there from their justice, pride, lust, covertness, envy, judgmental, lying, thieving, uncompassionate, non feeling, hard hearted, unforgiving, power hungry, unmerciful self. According to the Bible I read this is called Hell. What I look for is the opposite of what I see many following, and it's hard to follow correctly, easy to get sucked in. Satan hasn't been around for all this time being stupid. I think I'll take the other route, the harder one to try to do. Oh I'll slip and fall, and I'll get back up, just like many others. But I'll try and remember that God gave me the index finger not to point out someone who has fallen, but rather use with the other digits to offer a hand up. To hold onto people and philosophies, and truths... and when I'm not, to pick the beam from my own eye out. Peace.
I hear a lot of people call for justice. That isn't Christian. Shakespeare once said in a play, "That in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation. So we pray for mercy". If we use that rule of total justice with no mercy, it is the very opposite of Christianity. I'm not saying let the hardened criminal go free, but we seem to apply that hard core justice to everybody no matter the offense, save for ourselves. In schools there is zero tolerance. These red light cams, zero tolerance. Perhaps the makers and maintains of this laws, after all the Bible does say that you will be judged by the manner and standards you judge by. You may very well judge yourself by another, provided you know that the minute you compare yourself to another, you've already fell way short.
I also hear a lot of talk about the politicians discussing ending entitlement programs and assistance programs. A country is judged by the poorest people and older people and how they are treated. Just like when I went looking for a job I looked at the parking lots to see what kinds of vehicles employees drove. The top 10 % and the lower 10% . I eliminated and went by the average. You will always have some that abuse the system and some that want to live that way. You also have those who abuse the system and are the top 10%. We see the starving children commercials that feature other countries, yet fail to see that 1 in 4 of our own kids go to bed hungry every night. That 50 million people are hungry. I know we delve into fat a lot, or politically correct term, obese. When the body is full of food without the proper nutrition it is possible to actually starve with a full belly. By the grace of God we haven't needed assistance, but as the old people said, "There by the grace of God go I." It isn't Christian to starve people or walk past someone who is hungry.
You have the pride things these days a lot too going around. Be proud, yet "Pride goeth before a fall". I know that one all too well. I can tell you too that the higher you climb in that pride the further down you will fall and the harder the hit. Pride is not part of Christianity either. Patriotism is good but it isn't part of Christianity either. There is a hierarchy to go by and that one places third in my list, God, family, then country. Pride in your work is a good thing, provided you know that it is by God's grace you are able to do that work.
I want to get back to older people for a moment. I know from delivering the hospital areas a lot of what goes on. Drug Reps sometimes leave samples and the doctors distribute them out. Guess who almost always asks for samples. The wealthy ones and ones who can afford them. I use to hear nurses and doctors fuss about that all the time. Now here we have an old person, a car or material thing of the same age is priceless, yet they aren't? These people have fought, bled, worked their butts off. They, not the rich or politicians (also rich) have built this country, and they are forced to pick between eating and their medicine. Oh yea, that ain't Christian either. These people also cared enough about you to raise you. I think honoring the parent thing might come in here.
Now lets get to the crippled and wounded, either from allowing multinational corporations to abuse them and especially service men and women. I have to put the multinational part in corporation because I once said corporation and had a few people scream because the owned a small business. Hint, if you are reading this you ain't one of them. Now maybe it was from their ignorance and maybe not, either way, their crippled and maimed. Then there are those born with disabilities. I would love to be shown a scripture in the Bible where these people are not loved and shown compassion. "There but by the grace of God go I."
So now we come to the abortion part. I don't think I have a say in it since I'm a male and it's not my child. I think it's sad, but I know that God knows the woman's heart and circumstances of that decision. I know that I am not to be her judge. Is it murder, yes, but it's also murder to starve that child later or force that child and their parents to take shots that raise the chance of Autism. I think it's murder to abduct and part of children and sell their organs. I think it's murder to have roughly 2,000 children go missing each day in the USA and a damn shame that the Missing Kid's Network doesn't have a total other than 2002. You know what amazes me? If that many people really got that upset, why are there kids who desperately need a home. Where are all these concerned Christians?
Now there is something terribly wrong when a political party attempts to claim Jesus, and actually, He is what Christianity is based upon. I think it is bad when people scream to give the tip top a tax break, we tried Trickle Down Economics with Regan and it didn't work. But where does the people get the wrong ideas on Christianity? It's pretty simple really, the Christian Right and the Government. If this was on my board I'd give links to each thing here, but it ain't, so Google it. There is something wrong when in 2008 the fall of the market wiped out people's plans, but many in Congress and Senate made at the least millions. There is something bad wrong if you go to church and hear politics, which is anti-Christian. Might want to check out what Jesus had to say about the profession of politics.
Well my rant is about over. If you've made it this far I'll go out with a bang. Did you ever read the history of Germany, before the Nazis? The fall of Rome? We're treading down that path right now. Get religion behind it and a man will not question what atrocities they are asked of. Change a belief and you control that man... or woman. If we pray for the Second Coming look around at the ones who are lost, then look in the mirror. Do you really want that? If you are a Christian you will not. I learned something that night and one thing stays with me. Everybody that yells god may just be the wrong god, and the Bible says there are more than one god. I watch whom I pray with, but never for.
My thoughts is that the Heaven that the Christian Right and Left pray for, and the god they pray to, is going to be a very lonely place. One I care not to go and one I care not to worship. They will be the only one there from their justice, pride, lust, covertness, envy, judgmental, lying, thieving, uncompassionate, non feeling, hard hearted, unforgiving, power hungry, unmerciful self. According to the Bible I read this is called Hell. What I look for is the opposite of what I see many following, and it's hard to follow correctly, easy to get sucked in. Satan hasn't been around for all this time being stupid. I think I'll take the other route, the harder one to try to do. Oh I'll slip and fall, and I'll get back up, just like many others. But I'll try and remember that God gave me the index finger not to point out someone who has fallen, but rather use with the other digits to offer a hand up. To hold onto people and philosophies, and truths... and when I'm not, to pick the beam from my own eye out. Peace.
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