Dear Christian

Today I’m going to post something from Mike Walsh, better known as Mikey the Rhino at Election-Coverage.com. Tomorrow I can give you my take on what exactly this has to do with this week’s theme, Peace and our study of the Fruit of the Spirit.

So without further adieu I give Mikey the Rhino the floor…

Dear Christian,

Jokes and humor have been a major part of my blog posts. Time to put the jokes to bed. Maybe even bare my teeth a bit here.

God I like, as a concept, but I have trouble believing in Him.

The people who believe in Him have a nasty tendency to be, well, let’s face it, nasty. They make it hard to look at God and think “I want to be like these people and follow them into the Kingdom of Heaven”

Two examples of what I view as wrong with the men who work In God’s name follow. There are many more.

Missionaries, as one example of the wrong perpetrated in the name of God, are about as evil a group of humans that as had or will have ever existed. The point I have always had a problem with, is that of forcing religion down the throats of those they want to convert. Do you think the American Indians who first ran into the Spanish wanted a new God? The Chinese and Japanese I am pretty sure didn’t really need the Christian God that was foisted On them By missionaries several hundred years ago. I’m sure they were fine with whatever spirits they believed in.

And there are missionaries who do this even now. If people really wanted God, They would have sought Him out. Leave the people of the world be. That actually goes out to ALL religions. The world would be a better place without having God and religious beliefs forced on us.

Why do you think missionaries were killed or as religious types like to put it, martyred, as they were when Things went sour?

Another more modern group of “Christians” who are just wrong, In my opinion at least, are the modern preachers. Let’s look at one.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

As an American I was unhappy with his anti-American statements, but I could live with them. You have freedom of speech and can say what you like. No worries there.

But His anti-Semitic ranting and His anti-white talk are absolutely against all the good that is in the Bible, and the hearts of honest upstanding citizens.

He preached In church for 30 some odd years. I’m certain there are preachers like him and Robertson, Tilton and Bakker and the like of all colors and denominations who have preached similar hate and have taken advantage of others for their own gain, and have spoken with hate In their hearts to children, to mothers and fathers. Making it look like it is ok to hate. That it has God’s sanction. It is coming from the pulpit, how could it not look like that?

‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ Christ is said to have said this On the cross. The translation is “My God, My God, Why have you Forsaken me?”

He didn’t. But his forebears certainly have. The ideals upon which the church was to have been built, Love and Truth, have been undermined by those wishing to further their own aims.

And if you don’t see naked, blind ambition in either of the examples I gave, you aren’t looking hard enough.

There is no love In pushing God On those who don’t want it.

There is No truth in hate pushed from the pulpit, no matter the cause.

If God is the truth, He will find me. Don’t sell Him to me.

I ain’t buying.

Wanna argue any of the points I made here? I’d be more than happy to speak to you about it.

The Rhino