What Christianity is NOT!
Charasmatic and fundamentalist Christians today in America and around the world are moving forward with their personal ignorance and bigotry against their own neighbors, while labeling it as God's will. Whether talking about Gay rights, Right to choose or the status of immigrants, Fundamentalists have a huge card to play in these cases. Majority of Mainstream Christians have been blinded by their personal disdain against the people, they think are different from them, and hence are bashed by "clobber passages" from the Bible. These hypocrites are a lot less concerned with what the gospel says and with what they feel that God says.
But as Jesus says in Matthew 6:24- "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." So, it clearly says that one cannot hear both Christ's message of peace and the personal disdain for peace at the same time. People, who claim themselves to be as loving and compassionate as Christ but feel the need to take away every bit of happiness from people, how can they actually be Christians?
The New Testament, which is the only record of the life of Jesus Christ, tells of many stories where Christ condemned self-righteous hypocrite religious leaders who were believers of empty rituals then of acceptance. Jesus's ministry was dedicated to the broken, the sinners, the outcast-ed, without a single word of condemnation against them. Instead of shouting on inhumane and degrading judgments on the people he preached to, he commanded them to love one another.
But 2000 years later, people are still trying to interpret the scriptures in their own way, keeping their bigotry and ignorance to make the way in the passages. Churches that beg for donations but donate a few to the hungry and homeless, certainly have gone on the wrong side of "Traditional Christian beliefs". In a world where people call themselves as Servants of God and yet continue to support Hate for the minorities, Greed and idolization of Money, That world doesnt belong to the righteous, but to the pharisees.
Charasmatic and fundamentalist Christians today in America and around the world are moving forward with their personal ignorance and bigotry against their own neighbors, while labeling it as God's will. Whether talking about Gay rights, Right to choose or the status of immigrants, Fundamentalists have a huge card to play in these cases. Majority of Mainstream Christians have been blinded by their personal disdain against the people, they think are different from them, and hence are bashed by "clobber passages" from the Bible. These hypocrites are a lot less concerned with what the gospel says and with what they feel that God says.
But as Jesus says in Matthew 6:24- "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." So, it clearly says that one cannot hear both Christ's message of peace and the personal disdain for peace at the same time. People, who claim themselves to be as loving and compassionate as Christ but feel the need to take away every bit of happiness from people, how can they actually be Christians?
The New Testament, which is the only record of the life of Jesus Christ, tells of many stories where Christ condemned self-righteous hypocrite religious leaders who were believers of empty rituals then of acceptance. Jesus's ministry was dedicated to the broken, the sinners, the outcast-ed, without a single word of condemnation against them. Instead of shouting on inhumane and degrading judgments on the people he preached to, he commanded them to love one another.
But 2000 years later, people are still trying to interpret the scriptures in their own way, keeping their bigotry and ignorance to make the way in the passages. Churches that beg for donations but donate a few to the hungry and homeless, certainly have gone on the wrong side of "Traditional Christian beliefs". In a world where people call themselves as Servants of God and yet continue to support Hate for the minorities, Greed and idolization of Money, That world doesnt belong to the righteous, but to the pharisees.
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