The final Dark Chronicles post for a while, butI think it is worthy of note. Lately, I've been seeing the same up tick of political manipulation of morals that I've seen on both sides, over and over for decades of my own life and centuries and millennia of history. Me.. because I tend to value speaking truth over charade.. I will call it to light. There is a reason why I am a political independent. There is a reason why I am a Bible trained and most of a seminary trained NON church attendee. I am generally pretty quick in being able to identify the value of someone or something, and that tends to be proven over the long haul. My own analysis of where culture is going from decades ago has only proven more and more true. The basic sum of which can be summed in one concept that is repeated in many iterations throughout the world, trying desperately to find an open ear. One incarnation of this truth is this... faith without works is dead.
As many of you know from my posts over the years, I do not oppose God.. or the Divine, though I might have a more mature view of it than most. What I DO oppose is what God has been defined as being and more particularly organized religion...of any kind. In my opinion, the spiritual is useful, til humans get involved being a broker. That's when it falls apart. That's when it becomes fake, because humans proclaim to know what the Divine wants. Good luck with that. I honestly doubt that the DIVINE knows what the Divine wants, otherwise, why would they constantly be entertained by watching or bartering over what humans will do?
Religion is pretty simple. You tell people to believe in God. You tell them that God wants the best for you. You tell them to ask God for what they desire. Then, you tell them that if you don't get what you desire, it is a gift of God. There is literally no way that God can be held to blame for anything, if you define God's Will as being whatever happens to happen. Indeed, if God is Supreme, I think the "Devil" would have a more validated claim on being God than God...IF you believed what religion tells you is true of God.
That is kinda depressing, so let me lighten it up with something that might just shake your foundations of theology. Love thy neighbor. Jesus said that. In the Bible, Jesus said to turn your cheek to your enemy and forgive them. Sounds great... right? Ok.. now, go find me an example of that in religion.. not believers but religion. Lately, I have been thinking about how the few examples of love that I had seen in religion was not done by the organizations but by the PEOPLE within the walls.. then the organization takes credit. Do you know who else has examples of good being done? Literally thousands of non religious organizations and people that do good, every day. Right now, warnings are being sent out by state food assistance programs for the poor that soon their aid will be cut by the government shutdown. So, of course, the gap will be funded by churches of Jesus, right? Wrong.. they're too busy preparing for political donations and Christmas presentations. Tell me I'm wrong.. cite examples where I'm wrong... I beg you.
Stop waiting for God to save the world. Go do something to save it, yourself... or shut up about blaming anyone for failing at anything. You can spend your time looking for who to blame for the world or just go love thy neighbor.
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