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Sometimes I’m cruising around the internet doing research and I come across Blogs lambasting Christians and they make me want to pull my eyeballs out and wipe them off and stick them back in for better focus.Case in point, the article, The Godly Must Be Crazy.
For the record, there are crazy Christians, just like there are crazy “name your religion” or person. Craziness is not reserved for anyone in particular, but too often there’s an accepted license to drag Christians through the mud, laugh at them, and kick them, too.
Just turn the other cheek and everything will be fine. Right? Wrong.
Christians should ban together, wake up, shake up, and defend our Lord. It says in the Bible that “Anyone who knows the right thing (to do), but does not do it, is sinning.” (James 4:17) Apathy sleeps with the devil. But we’re afraid, especially of the faceless-nameless internet dweebs, and where immorality is rampant. People are basically evil (Roman’s 3:23), especially behind their keyboards where many are exhibiting unrestrained forms of evil. I've personally received vile messages from strangers, all because I believe in Christ.
Though the article I'm referring to was written in June of 04, comments are as recent as June 08, meaning, browsers are reading this writer’s opinion of Christians, and believing it, without stepping away from their web browsers to really search for the truth--which they can find in a good Life-Application Bible. One commenter stated:
Well at least the religious right buffoons must be (Crazy). If they believe in such a dismal future, why do they still have children, do these people know what kind of message they are sending to the younger generation?... we as human beings do alot [sic] to help mold and shape circumstances, so we have alot of power to turn things around for the better if we make that commitment and want to change things and have things turn out diffrently, [sic] but it takes the village, but of course not a village of fantical [sic] religious idiots. What a shame that they don't care enough to want to make a better future for their own children ... They are just selfish, self centered and nihilistic
Sometimes I don’t know where to begin to witness my faith when many who attack Christians are Bible illiterate! It’s vogue to attack Christians, and not only on the Internet. Christians are still being persecuted all over the world, including in this country, and while this is happening the ACLU is helping to tear down our Christian imagines one cross at a time.
I might as well unpack this article I stumbled upon to better explain my irk. What I want you to do is notice a few things about these statements that are stated as factual instead of opinion. So, here we go…
Forty-five senators and 186 representatives in 2003 earned 80- to 100-percent approval ratings from the nation's three most influential Christian right advocacy groups -- the Christian Coalition, Eagle Forum, and Family Resource Council. Many of those same lawmakers also got flunking grades -- less than 10 percent, on average -- from the League of Conservation Voters last year.
There is no reference to this comment. One might assume this writer did his own research and wants us to do the same. Since this article was written, the LCV has upgraded 2007 and 2008 as “banner years” for the environment. Apparently all the Christians have left office.
There are all kinds of graphs you can download from his site, which few will really do—just move on with more erroneous messages about Christians.
He goes on to say…
These statistics are puzzling at first. Opposing abortion and stem-cell research is consistent with the religious right's belief that life begins at the moment of conception. Opposing gay marriage is consistent with its claim that homosexual activity is proscribed by the Bible. Both beliefs are a familiar staple of today's political discourse. But a scripture-based justification for anti-environmentalism?*
Okay, hold on here. Christians do not oppose all stem-cell research. I’ll give this writer a break, as he wrote this a few years ago, and we’ve since learned that stem-cells can be harvested from other things besides zygotes. Yes, Christians do believe that life begins at conception, because it does, but the argument is that until said zygote pitches a tent in the uterus, it’s just traveling through like a blood clot. Just because some pre-embryos don’t attach to the uterus, doesn’t discount God’s involvement and I suppose he’s there with the millions of frozen zygotes waiting for a chance to develop into a human being, or for a death sentence. At the time of conception a human begins to grow if you leave it alone; if you do not value a growing human being because he or she is just a zygote, you might not value an infant since they cry and poop all day long. You’ll find ways to minimize the importance of life. What this writer might have wanted to say was the Christians believe that the soul begins at the moment of conception, but he didn’t write that. Soul holds too much water, so let’s use the world life which is a sieve for contention.
Women who’ve had abortions often regret that decision later in life, especially when they later have children and realize what they’ve done when they see that infant either on a sonogram or in their arms. Sometimes it takes some living to understand the frailty of our lives. I don’t doubt when I was 17 years old I would have opted for an abortion without thinking twice, and I might have counseled my daughter to do the same when she was in High School. I had no clue about the importance of a living being within a womb. Of course all this leads to responsibility not to get pregnant in the first place. That’s another topic.
Yes, the majority of Christians oppose gay marriages, and yes, they do believe that homosexual activity is not natural and, like it or not, it is forbidden in Scripture. But you don’t have to be Christian to have that opinion, and an opinion isn’t the same as intolerance or violence. Fact: our bodies are made male and female, with ports and docks that are not meant to be interchangeable. Where is the rationality of evolution if this statement isn’t true? Homosexuality was as widespread thousands of years ago as it is in ours. Why haven’t we evolved to have two sets of organs? Because that’s not how God set things up.
Other religious faiths are far more intolerant of homosexuality than Christians. There are countries where execution is the punishment for this lifestyle. Homosexuality is a sin just like any other sin, and just because we like the lust it stirs in us, doesn’t make it right. People are being told that homosexuality does not hurt people. But homosexuality hurts individuals, and we’ve all seen families torn apart over a daughter or son coming out of the closet. My own family has a broken marriage from the husband coming out.
No one gazes down upon their newborn thinking, oh, how darling he or she is, I hope she grows up to be gay! I hope she chooses a different, unaccepted lifestyle where he or she will be subject to ridicule, basing, discrimination, and disease. We are god’s darling children. He doesn’t want any of the pain that a homosexual lifestyle will inflict, either physically or emotionally. You can propose all the laws you want regarding the rights of homosexuals, but ultimately they’ll never be fully accepted by all of society or by our Christian God. Marriage is between a man and woman. Anything else is rebellion against God, but that doesn’t mean hell. Only God makes that decision and that’s where zealous Christians veer off.
Many Christian fundamentalists feel that concern for the future of our planet is irrelevant, because it has no future. They believe we are living in the End Time, when the son of God will return, the righteous will enter heaven, and sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire. They may also believe, along with millions of other Christian fundamentalists, that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even hastened -- as a sign of the coming Apocalypse.
This statement is outright insane. This is the opinion of the writer. There is no proof that any of this statement is true. Yes, there are websites that feed the apocalypse, but do politicians really base their political platform on the return of Christ? No way! If they did, maybe they’d be more honest!
This same writer quotes Senator Zell Miller (now retired), as a Christian fundamentalist politician having no concern for the planet because he quote from the book of Amos: "The days will come, sayeth the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread or of thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord!" Of course, the blogger didn't reference the quote, making Senator Miller seem like a wing-nut aspoucing scripture out of context!
Like it or not, faith in the Apocalypse is a powerful driving force in modern American politics.
As a Christian, I’ve never heard this preached before (and I’ve attended many churches), nor do I know where this information came from to research it futher. American politics is driven by money, greed and power.
Stand up for the truth, stand up for Jesus Christ.
