Happy Endings
The human race has hobbled along on their Achilles’ heel for a long time, trying to get back to how it was …in the beginning. Religion is man’s attempt to make himself feel better about the whole mess. (Wasn’t it Karl Marx that said, “Religion is the opium of the people” ?)
But, if there IS a supreme being who wants to help us, and IF it (supreme being) HAS tried to make contact with us and has left us all sorts of clues to its existence, then it must be possible for us to find it (him/her) too! Hopefully, it (God) has made it relatively easy!In my own personal search, I have found religion to be empty, offering no hope.(for any happy endings….)
Christianity has been plagued with people who have the same limp that I do, and much of Christianity is man’s attempt to define, control, manipulate others’ concept of God. (judgmental…making outcasts feel very uncomfortable……)
Ironic that Christianity’s leader started out by being a friend of those who didn’t have it all together. I hear he was accused of being a drunkard and a prostitute lover. And that he seemed to forgive those who were “caught in the act.”Seems he spent a lot of time with those “types of people.”Yet, the religious right seemed to have a big problem with him and didn’t view things as he did. (He just wasn’t judgmental enough for them, I guess, and wasn’t into making “social outcasts.”) Too bad for him. It cost him his life.
So……….maybe Christianity needs to get itself back to the beginning….Maybe I owe it to myself to look past all the junk that Christianity has picked up along the way – and find out how it was intended to be…in the beginning.Perhaps the beginning holds the clues to the happy endings ! Eh ?
But, if there IS a supreme being who wants to help us, and IF it (supreme being) HAS tried to make contact with us and has left us all sorts of clues to its existence, then it must be possible for us to find it (him/her) too! Hopefully, it (God) has made it relatively easy!In my own personal search, I have found religion to be empty, offering no hope.(for any happy endings….)
Christianity has been plagued with people who have the same limp that I do, and much of Christianity is man’s attempt to define, control, manipulate others’ concept of God. (judgmental…making outcasts feel very uncomfortable……)
Ironic that Christianity’s leader started out by being a friend of those who didn’t have it all together. I hear he was accused of being a drunkard and a prostitute lover. And that he seemed to forgive those who were “caught in the act.”Seems he spent a lot of time with those “types of people.”Yet, the religious right seemed to have a big problem with him and didn’t view things as he did. (He just wasn’t judgmental enough for them, I guess, and wasn’t into making “social outcasts.”) Too bad for him. It cost him his life.
So……….maybe Christianity needs to get itself back to the beginning….Maybe I owe it to myself to look past all the junk that Christianity has picked up along the way – and find out how it was intended to be…in the beginning.Perhaps the beginning holds the clues to the happy endings ! Eh ?
posted by GroupLink at
6:51 AM
1 Comments:
Two simple rules as set down as being most important by the Son of God, "Love God, Love People." I paraphrase, of course, but that's what He wants us to do. Not condemn, not deny others, not be judgemental...God is love! Do the God thing and love everyone! At least try real hard...I know it can be tough, especially when we are feeling abused or neglected or marginalized. But that's when we need it the most. But also remember that you're not only doing it for the others...you're doing it for yourself! If you walk in a spirit of love and compassion, you walk in a beautiful world...you see the world that our Lord has made, and you're probably a lot closer to seeing it the way He intended. Just reach out and love someone today!
Jon
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