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(Note: This is a re-post of a Note, I posted on Facebook.)
So, as those who know me, you know my Faith- NOT RELIGION, is one of my strengths. A huge bur has lodged itself in my saddle, and I can’t take the high road any longer. I want you who claim the Name of the Lord, and think real hard, real, real hard, about what kind of person you are in Christ. If a Homeless Man, came a knocking at your Church’s door, would you have the nerve, and let him in, out of the cold, for the length of the sermon, and not judge him? Now ask, is your Church the kind, that would accept people from the “wrong side of the tracks”? I bet ten cents, your church community wouldn’t, let alone, entertain the idea.
Anything can be a religion! Even eating a Ham Sandwich on a Tuesday, can be a “Religion.” “Religion” is legalistic, ritualistic, pious, and bigot loaded. And yes, I may sound like I’m complaining, but I’m calling out the facts. Jesus didn’t come, so that we could quibble among ourselves about who’s “way” is right. John 3:16- Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.” God gave us choice to follow him, or not. Man now mocks what Man has created, and Man created Mockery, out of what God had said and done. We’re too focused on what “not” to do. I’ve heard children ask “how” when their parents tell them to be good, after they’d been chewed out repeatedly for what they’re NOT to do. My point being, I’m sick! I’m sick of how people lump Christians into the same boat. I’m sick, of thinking that Christians are the Banes of Existence. Christians aren’t Banes. It’s MAN’s constructs and Mockery of God himself, to be “Holier than Thou,” and I’m sick, disgusted, plain downright angry at all of those who claim Jesus’ name in “Religion” Karl Marx was right, “Religion is the Opium of the People!” I will say this now,
“Faith- the act of believing, practicing what you believe, as a lifestyle, is happy liberation from bondage.”
If you think Christians are all the same, think again. The Christians you mostly meet, are all “Praise the Lord” on Sunday, and the most awful, rancid, putrid sinners, to walk God’s Earth! They are creatures of broken bondage, that either don’t realize, or fully realize, and keep breaking. Forgiveness isn’t a Ticket to keep acting the Same Rotten Way you Act! Forgiveness, is your reprieve, to change your life for the better, and never return to that mistake. You’ll make plenty mistakes in life- we’re creatures created from Sin. The Cross wasn’t so you can just carry on as you were. The Cross was Emancipation from Sin. The Cross, isn’t just Sunday, to give you a clean slate. The Cross is the price paid, so that you don’t have to wallow in spiritual destitution every single day of your life. Jesus came, so that the laws of the Old Testament, wouldn’t bound those Grafted into the Tree of Life. And at the same time, that same EMPTY Cross, is the symbol of the Faithful, to uphold the responsibility that is the Faith of Christianity. The ritualistic rules of the Old Testament, were made null and void by the cross, but that’s NO right to act like there’s a Golden Calf to Party around! Think about that for a second, just one blasted second.
“Religion is Getting in the Way of Relationship. That we don’t even know God’s Love, because we’re so busy beating up people, with the rules and what they can’t do. When people come to [religion] about what they can’t do, rather than what they can do.” - Kirk Franklin
I dare you to consider this:
“I want people to know about the beautiful life they can get, when they sign up. So to be able to do that, let’s focus on relationship, and feel that love, man. ” - Kirk Franklin
If there’s one thing I detest, it’s the “Pious Bigots,” that proclaim the name of Jesus, that proclaim the Faith of Christianity as Their “Religion,” that hurt people without any remorse and guilt, alienating those they hurt, from God’s love. Pious Bigots, hear me, you’re sorry sinners! You’ve hurt too many I care for. You’ve alienated those who I love. You’ve hurt too many that matter to me. You’ve even hurt me- by being inconsiderate, by Witch Hunting when I wanted to get Baptized! A young child, wanting to feel God’s love, and you put him on Trial, like it was Salem! Was there some bad rye bread that day or what? You hurt me, by bastardizing the closest I felt to God, and insulting me, and for what? Making a show of your Pastor Relative resources, a Big Show of your Religion? Good Riddance to your mess. You failed miserably anyway. You got what you sowed! You don’t represent Jesus, his teachings, his life, HIS LOVE! You are NO better than the bankers at the Temple, that Jesus ramshackled, in disgust! You’re worse! You make yourselves out as representing all Christians, everywhere! NEWSFLASH: YOU DON’T! You don’t represent me, or anyone, or anything, but the Hatred, that has permeated, embedded itself, like blasted Hipsters, ruining the message of the “Carpenter from Nazareth.” It’s disturbing and disgusting. You are leaches, sucking life out of the Faith, replacing it with the Opium- that is Religion. You’re a sorry lot.
And now, I’ll throw everybody for a loop- I FORGIVE YOU. Now, for the love of Creation, Repent. Do something consciously selfless, and Act what you believe, and read the New Testament for yourself! The Old Testament, is just Backstory! B-A-C-K-S-T-O-R-Y. Nobody’s held to it, but don’t disregard it. A good chunk is common sense in there (I.E.- Don’t have relations with your cousins!), but the parts about divorces, what to or not to eat, et cetera (wacky stuff, due to the primitive nature of the time) that stuff is either at discretion (food), and/or null and void. I forgive you Pious Bigots. I ask you to ask God for forgiveness, own up, change your life, and humble yourself. You as you stand, are a sorry sight. You waste the price that the Cross afforded all, even though you claim to know God’s Son. You don’t! You wouldn’t be Pious Bigots if you did. Jesus died, so we may live. You trash this opportunity, through “Religion” a vile product synthesized by Man, that has NOTHING to do with the Trinity! Repent you False Proclaiming Sinners. Jesus will forgive you. God will forgive you. You Pious Bigots, Repent. I forgive you. Jesus is waiting for you to ask it of him. He waits for your humility. He waits to make you a new creature in his image, his love, his stregnth. Are you game for that though? Only you can answer that one.
On that bombshell. I leave you for now. That’s my peace. I step off my soapbox, and retire for the evening. I now give you an encore presentation of Kirk Franklin everybody. Good Night, and God bless. In Jesus name, amen.
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