journalman's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thoughts on Christianity I am really disturbed by a AC360/CNN report on modern-day Christianity. It is an enterprise that has been so corrupted by political interests, that it is being used to sway its very own faithful members in support of illicit political motives. These motives generally include murder, theft, covetting of oil, detruction of natural resources, and genocide. I want to take a minuteto differentiate between churchgoing folks, who are absolutely good people of faith, and the overarching 'christian church' as an organization. The CNN report contained foootage of an evangelical church in TX, a 4,000 person congregation, whose pastor and members openly pray for 'big bonuses, well-paying jobs with full benefits, and a nice car'. White/Shouthern folk who have interpreted God's riches to mean material possessions. Somewhere, Buddha, is rolling over. Pastor Creflo A. Dollar, really his last name, cries out that Jesus's kingdom is the ticket to wealth and financial success. Meanwhile, Bushco uses the Bible to justify his oil-heist in the region with the oil. He paints a picture of good vs. evil. Of course they are evil. They are of that other religion and read that other book. I mean the good book says the world will end here, so we might as well be the ones to end it. When one looks at the way Jews and Christians band together to believe that the world 'began and ended' where Iraq and the oil sits makes one wonder if the entire plotline was written to get their hands on oil that isn't theirs. It sounds ludicrous, because they didn't even 'know about' oil back then. Right? Wrong. Think of the Hannukah story... one day's oil for eight day's light. The entire basis of that miracle was the use of some really divine oil. Who are the bad guys? Those jerks with the oil. That's who we'll call evil. All we have to do is say it's in the handy-dandy Bible. This Bible, by the way, was written AFTER the story of Hannukah, which embeds the value of oil as God's magic. No wonder the churches like Bushco so much. 3:18 p.m. - 2007-05-12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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