Head's up all: This is going to get into matters of religion, my personal faith, and spiritual matters big time. Keep it civil please. If this isn't your thing just remember I gave fair warning up front.
We need to talk. No more than that, we need to communicate. Recently I had the opportunity to speak to a young woman at Det Con 1 in Detroit and over the course of it when she found out that I was a Christian and had certain concerns about the way certain players were trying to move the chess board she was surprised because she didn't know that there were people like me. That's more than a little troubling for a variety of reasons, so I'm going to take a few moments to talk about the big problem here and just what is going on and, hopefully, how we can solve it.
The mainstream of Christianity, or at least the one most covered by the press, has been utterly corrupted by two heretical teachings: Dominionism and Prosperity Gospel. For the life of me I can't figure out why so few people haven't seen right through these teachings, but I have my suspicions. Both rely on using quotes from scripture out of context and wild misinterpretations from men who claim to know God yet say things that utterly contradictory to the teachings of Christ. Seriously sit down read the Bible and compare it to the things some of the biggest proponents of those two teachings say and you'll be shocked at how much they've jumped the shark (if that's an appropriate allusion). In fact I'll say it straight up, the Church triumphant has become so corrupted by its involvement in politics that we've lost sight of our original purpose and care more about money and power than the people Christ came for.
Until more of us are willing to stand up and say no more, this is not going to change. In fact I'm betting it's going to get much, much worse given how hateful and mean spirited politics is becoming.
It honestly makes me want to weep.
That's all for now
God bless you all
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EDIT: I changed a phrasing as I was alerted that the one I had used was one that wasn't used much anymore due to its racial undertones. I think the new one works just as well, maybe a touch better; but I didn't want to offend accidentally.