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Hi,again. I know, WTF do you start out a blog and then nothing anymore, why cannot just persevere a bit?


So, here is my nth punya attempt. God, it gets more pathetic each time. One two threeeee......

I hate Christian bumper stickers -part 2: Flawed Premises

There's only one, really. One flawed premise that almost a billion people bought into or are backsliding from.

Heaven is where saved people go to. Jesus died so that I can go there. And not go to Hell, where the people God hates stay forever because they they didn't accept Jesus as their saviour. So, if I can just get more people to accept Him, then I'll get them to heaven. And I'll be so special to God for that......

And this becomes the reason for what they do. The bumper stickers, the 'rock concerts', those friends who want you to go to a "rock concert"  which turns out to be "that" kind of rock concert, the evangelical right, the creationists.

It's the material millions of pastors use to 'address' the issues of our times. It's what they have used to slam homosexuality, advocate for Intelligent Design. This premise in turn, practically generated a billion dollar industry in books and videos. It allowed the church in one way, to condemn the cultures of it's time while at the same time, becoming more divided between the haves and have nots within the church.

I hate Christian bumper stickers -part 1

As a Christians, I hate Christian bumper stickers. I hated them before I became one and I still hate them today.

As a Christian, I also have a hatred for the following 'Christian' things.

1. WWJD (i know, this is really ancient stuff)

2.  This guy and those like him (which is a conundrum. Does any illwill towards a homophobic who turns out to be gay count as homophobia?)

3.  Christians trying to save the unsaved by sharing the gospel. 99% of them.

4.

There are just too many.


The thing is, there's a lot of bad religion going on in the church. And what you see above are the results of a culture created around some flawed premises that have been left unchecked and anyone attempting to get close to what the Scriptures mean can face isolation. Let this run for a few or so generations, coupled by events like WW1, WW2, the Cold War and the fear these events generate AND the general prospering of these groups of people, and there you have it.....millions of well intended people who want to save the world from hell.

What are these premises then? --> Time for part 2.

Hi what's this blog about?

Good question.

Well, I'm asking myself that right now.

I wanted the web to have some place

where people (from within and out of the "Church")
who have taken many good looks at the Church as it is today,
see its flaws and saving graces
and
make a case for change it needs to "save itself from itself".

After well, close to 6 years since my 'salvation', my pair feels grown up enough to speak up and seek others who will too.

What exactly is not right with the Church the way it is will be discussed in the weeks to come. In addition, I will do my best to present a way of re-view the way the Bible should be read, or rather, the way it's intended to.

To paraphrase a very cheese line "If you are reading this, you are the revolution". I mean it.