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I'm an average guy in his late thirties. I've worked as a repairman for the past ten or so years. About a year ago, I had a revalatory moment that shook me free from a lot of things.
I’d never really been a “true believer” in my life. I’d
been raised by parents more interested in living their
own lives than being involved in mine. I grew up
without having any particular set of convictions
drilled into me, so I was pretty much set free to drift
as the wind carried me.
I had never been drawn to any organized religion,
since when I was a teenager back in the Reagan era,
organized religion was self-destructing. It was the
time when Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker became
famous for using their TV ministry as a personal
piggy bank. Jerry Falwell had gained fame for
turning Christianity away from its roots and towards
being all about enforcing sexual morality. And the
first parts of the Catholic Church’s pedophilia
scandal started popping up in the news.
The Reagan Administration’s habit of cloaking itself
in an air of religious piety also steered me away from
Christianity. Anyone who wants to dispute me on
the issue of the Reagan bunch’s Christianity are
referred to the city of Philadelphia, Mississippi
where he announced his candidacy for the
Presidency in 1980. Previously, the most important
political event in Philadelphia had been the deaths of
civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael
Schwerner and James Cheney in 1964. Reagan
appeared to talk in those well-known racist code
words about “state’s rights.” This was no mistake or
misunderstanding. Reagan was clearly saying he
would carry on a racist agenda from Day One.
So for twenty years, I didn’t have much interest in
Christianity of any denomination, or any other faith
for that matter. I saw Faith as “the enemy,” in fact.
But in 2004, I finally actually started studying
Christian theology when a good friend lost his mind.
For some people, they go insane thinking that
Martians are inserting computer chips into their
dental work. Others become obsessed with blaming
Freemasons for stealing their mail. Fred became
convinced that a conspiracy of Gay Pagans and
Lesbian Witches were working to stamp out
Christianity in general and Fred in particular.
Appeals to Fred’s reason had no effect. He was
unshakable in his belief that Gay Pagans were
plotting against him. I pointed out that there were
about 2 billion Christians in the world and the
Lesbian Witches must number less than a couple
hundred thousand world -wide. “They’re recruiting
my wife,” was his reply.
“I don’t think that letting Gays marry will mean that
you will HAVE to marry Gay,” I’d tell him reasonably.
Yes, he assured me, it would.
For the first time in decades I started reading
Scripture and various people’s thoughts, trying in
vain to find a way to argue Fred back to Reality.
I never did, but I found myself developing Faith.
Finally reading Christ’s message myself made an
impact. And the one thing I noticed was that Jesus’
main target for his anger was… the religious leaders
of his day.
The Son of God spent more of his time rebuking
those who claimed to be God’s representatives on
Earth than he did speaking on any other subject.
For example Christ reprimanded disbelievers a total
of 11 times. 7 times for not recognizing Christ as
God's true prophet in Matthew 10:14; Matthew 11:
20; Matthew 21:32 Luke 7:30; Luke 10:13; John
12:48; John 15:20 . Four times he spoke about how
to react to disbelievers shunning His representatives
in Matthew 10:14-24; Mark 6:11 Luke 9:5 ; Luke
10:10. That’s not a lot of time spent going after
“pagans” is it?
So how many times did Christ challenge those who
claimed to be faithful to him? Thirty! He was far
harder on his believers than those who didn’t accept
him as the Son of God!
Jesus reprimanded THE FAITHFUL, for...
"Swearing" to confirm one's word: Matthew 5:34;
Doing good to impress others, or only for the sake
of a reward: Matthew 5:46 Matthew 6:1 Luke 6:32
Failing to live up to Jesus' teaching after having
accepted and professed it: Matthew 7:24; Luke 6:
47
Putting friends or relatives before God in Matthew
10:37; Luke 14:26
Denying Christ before men: Matthew 10:32; Luke
12:8
Failing to be the salt of the earth or the light of the
world:
Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:50 Mark 4:21 Luke 8:16
Luke 14:35
Abusing others, even if only in words: Matthew 5:21
Judging and criticizing what God alone can do:
Matthew 7:1; Luke 6:37
Lustful intentions and/or deeds: Matthew 5:27;
Unacceptable grounds for divorce: Matthew 5:31;
Matthew 19:9 Mark 10:11 Luke 16:18
Being smug and comfortable: Luke 6:24
Being unprepared for the coming of the Master:
Matthew 25:1-30; Luke 19:12-27; Luke 21:34
Having less faith than non-believers: Matthew 8:5;
Luke 7:8
Not recognizing Christ in the needy: Matthew 25:41-
46
So Christ was a lot harder on his followers than he
was on disbelievers. It makes me think Christ was
more interested in getting people to improve
themselves instead of focusing on the sins of
others. Hey, wait, he was!
How about how much time Christ spent rebuking
religious leaders for being untrue to God’s will?
Almost 80 times! (I’ll put the chapters & verses
on my web site at ttp://www.godhatesrepublicans.org/featured/article2.html.)
So as the popular bumper sticker goes, “What
Would Jesus Do?”
Well, I thought about it, prayed on it and slept on it.
I realized Jesus would probably challenge the
leaders of our society. He’d target the group that
controls all three branches of our Federal
Government. He’d go after the President and all his
appointees. He’d speak out against the group that
fills 222 seats in the House of Representatives and
55 in the Senate, and fills five out of nine seats in
the Supreme Court.
Jesus would preach about the group that controls
the Governor’s mansions in 28 states, and which is
funded by the largest corporations in the business
world and supported in the pulpit by the majority of
churches in this country.
He’d preach against James Dobson for telling his
followers to “focus on the Family” instead of
focusing on humanity. He’d rebuke Tim LaHaye for
writing how the world should go to Hell instead of on
how to live as if the World were Heaven. He’d tell
Jerry Falwell that suggesting we “kill them all in the
Lord’s name” isn’t what he meant when He said
“Love your enemies.”
He’d certainly have a LOT to say about the group
that dares commonly refer to itself as “God’s Own
Party.”
I feel that Jesus would join me in declaring that GOD
HATES REPUBLICANS! God is Love, but I think the
Bible is pretty clear on how The Lord feels about
false prophets who do evil and speak evil and claim
to do His will.
