I’m getting tired of it. More than that, I am becoming ashamed. Ashamed of some of the people who call themselves Christians today, yet live nothing like the text on which their faith instructs them to act.
For those who don’t know, I am a Christian. Lately I have found that I don’t like using that term to describe my faith. It seems that every time I do, I get lumped in with the current conservative movement, a movement I neither want to be associated with, nor want associated with my faith. God is not a god damned republican!! He isn’t a democrat either for that matter. He isn’t Baptist or Catholic. He isn’t Shiite, and he isn’t Sunni.
Without getting into a theological argument on the precepts of my faith, I would like to say that I am a Christian in the “born-again” sense. I believe the bible to be the word of God, some of it I take literally, some of it I take metaphorically.
Christianity today has become corrupted. Christians have either forgotten the principles and commandments on which the faith was founded, or sold them out to secular elements for perceived political gain.
Relax, I don’t intend to launch into a piece on fundamentalism here, just wanted to point out a few things after I stumbled across this website, and becoming ashamed that its authors claim to share the same faith I do.
I grow more and more weary of the fundamentalist “Christians” supporting politics and policies that not only have nothing to do with Christ; but seem to me to go directly against his teachings.
The afore mention site spews ignorance and hate that runs directly counter to instructions in the Bible. Under a thinly veiled guise of Christianity, these bloggers espouse a belief that all Muslims should leave the planet, among a plethora of other ignorant conservatism.
Why is it that most people who are more than happy to call me “brother” on Sunday, are people whose beliefs are so twisted, so opposite of what the man their (our) faith is founded on taught, that they make me ashamed to call myself a Christian.
No they make me ashamed to say that they “share” my faith.
Are they blind? Have they sold out the precepts of the faith for perceived political gain? I don’t know.
In the meantime all I can do is apologize.
To the rest of the world I tell you this. This is not what my faith is about. This isn’t the peace and love that Jesus taught. Whether you believe or not, I want you to know that not all Christians are tolerating this gross mutilation of our faith.
What Would Jesus Vote?
I’m getting tired of it. More than that, I am becoming ashamed. Ashamed of some of the people who call themselves Christians today, yet live nothing like the text on which their faith instructs them to act.
For those who don’t know, I am a Christian. Lately I have found that I don’t like using that term to describe my faith. It seems that every time I do, I get lumped in with the current conservative movement, a movement I neither want to be associated with, nor want associated with my faith. God is not a god damned republican!! He isn’t a democrat either for that matter. He isn’t Baptist or Catholic. He isn’t Shiite, and he isn’t Sunni.
Without getting into a theological argument on the precepts of my faith, I would like to say that I am a Christian in the “born-again” sense. I believe the bible to be the word of God, some of it I take literally, some of it I take metaphorically.
Christianity today has become corrupted. Christians have either forgotten the principles and commandments on which the faith was founded, or sold them out to secular elements for perceived political gain.
Relax, I don’t intend to launch into a piece on fundamentalism here, just wanted to point out a few things after I stumbled across this website, and becoming ashamed that its authors claim to share the same faith I do.
I grow more and more weary of the fundamentalist “Christians” supporting politics and policies that not only have nothing to do with Christ; but seem to me to go directly against his teachings.
The afore mention site spews ignorance and hate that runs directly counter to instructions in the Bible. Under a thinly veiled guise of Christianity, these bloggers espouse a belief that all Muslims should leave the planet, among a plethora of other ignorant conservatism.
Why is it that most people who are more than happy to call me “brother” on Sunday, are people whose beliefs are so twisted, so opposite of what the man their (our) faith is founded on taught, that they make me ashamed to call myself a Christian.
No they make me ashamed to say that they “share” my faith.
Are they blind? Have they sold out the precepts of the faith for perceived political gain? I don’t know.
In the meantime all I can do is apologize.
To the rest of the world I tell you this. This is not what my faith is about. This isn’t the peace and love that Jesus taught. Whether you believe or not, I want you to know that not all Christians are tolerating this gross mutilation of our faith.
and mostly…
…I am sorry.