Evangelicals, it seems to me, are always bitching about the corrupting influence of the culture, the oppression they face, the secular humanists running the world (huh?), the rampant sexual content (pardon me, but Jesus forbids consensual sex outside of wedlock between adults where? He hung out with prostitutes, you tight-assed Puritans!) and all manner of other distraction from their living a Godly life.
WHAT? If I actually believed that I’d get a billion years in heaven and all I had to do was survive my 70 plus years here on earth, it’d be a piece of cake. No sex, no drugs, no problem. It's like telling a kid you'll take him to Disneyland for a month if he stays quiet for 10 seconds. So why is it such a trial for Christians? Could it be doubt? What if this is the only chance I get at life and I make the wrong bet?
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Wow, that is a very very funny T-shirt. Was it someone you met on your travels?
It reminds me of the Simpsons eposide where Bart and Homer become Catholic, and Marge remains Protestant. Bart and Homer are in Catholic heaven, and Marge is in her Protestant heaven...and she is surrounded by boring uptight white men playing golf...and she looks over at the other cloud and sees Bart and Homer happily surrounded by Mexicans dancing and breaking Pinatas, Italians eating a huge feast at a table, and the Irish drinking and being routy (which all looked like a lot of fun)...and then Marge asked someone where Jesus was, and they pointed to the Catholic heaven where Jesus was being hoisted into the air by everyone and screaming with joy....
I know right?!
I think sometimes evangelicals think that there culture is not "culture", but how "it" really is.
Like they've arrived somewhere.
When in fact it IS a "culture". One that has grown in an environment where rich land owners, brought up in Calvinistic and Protestant enlightened thinking, wiped out the native race, enslaved the African continent, raped the earth, and now sit nice and tidy in there absurdly and unhealthy clean homes, trying to keep themselves in power and comfortable, justifying it by using old Hebrew texts, which they've exploited as well.
Josh Macha preached a sermon last month, and the last 1/2 was a good explanantion of the axiomatic attitude which is the racism of the ruling culture.
http://www.bridgephilly.org/sermons/josh-macha-10.21.2007-sermon.html
Why would Jesus change venues?
He provided the best wine at wedding at Cana, was accused ( rightly so) of hanging with the partyers, and was accused of being a drunk, as well as demon pssessed and out of his mind. IN other words, one who would like
a recovering Evangelical, alleged Buddhist, retired geek, middle-aged hippie, philanthropic neurotic
Blaise Pascal's version of the bet was to say leading a true Christian life ( If you read about his, he would not have been in the American Christian Right) is satisfying, and so if he is wrong, he dies a happy man.
My paraphrase is do today what you want to be doing for eternity. That will then cover Karma, earned glory AND grace!
Blaise Pascal's version of the bet was to say leading a true Christian life ( If you read about his, he would not have been in the American Christian Right) is satisfying, and so if he is wrong, he dies a happy man.
My paraphrase is do today what you want to be doing for eternity. That will then cover Karma, earned glory AND grace!
DO today what you would want to be doing for eternity.
I like it.
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