Thursday, March 31, 2011

We ain't scared of you God!

God Fearin’ Americans? That’s a Big Fat Lie!
I know a little bitty something about the God of Christianity - at least as the bible represents God. Based on what I read of scripture I am going to venture to say that:
God is no respecter of persons.
The earth is God’s and everything (everyone too?) in it.
Jesus, God incarnate, is pure unadulterated love.
God directs us to help each other - one and all - e.g. we are our sibling’s keeper like it or not.
God’s the potter, we are the clay. Some clay is made for noble purposes and some for common use. God determines that, yes?
There is one body and many parts. How can the hand tell the foot that it does not belong yadda yadda.
God has many sheep that are not of this sheepfold.
Jesus said, “As you do to the least of these you do to me” (paraphrased).
Oh my how I could go on… these are but a few of the things that I hold near and dear when I think of my faith… then I lose my, er, um, fervor shall we say when I:
Listen to Sarah Palin and other right wing, ‘tea party’ politicians carp about us becoming ‘socialists’… really? Is that because God calls us to take care of our poor and needy. Because God says that they will always be among us. We ain’t afraid of you God! If we were we would care for our poor people.
And the ‘Christians’ spewing their filth about having Muslims in their midst. A mosque in their neighborhoods. Demonstrating their rage and railing against their ‘fellow’ human beings. We ain’t scared of you God! If we were we would extend our hand and show love to them so that our joy would be full and you would be pleased.
Oh and our leaders turning a blind eye to the Pharisees (big business) while they hoard all of that filthy lucre in their storehouses - otherwise known as banks - for the moths to eat and for it to rust and rot being squandered hither and yawn instead of being used to see that children are fed and educated, people are sheltered and have medical treatment? We don’t fear you God! Ha! If we did we would experience extreme shame, put on sackcloth and ashes, weep mourn and wail, repent and spread the wealth! We are going to take our chances getting through the eye of that needle - cuz we ain’t scared of You!
Our mentally ill? Our less desirable ones? We warehouse them God. We don’t a little sumpin’ sumpin’ here and there to make ourselves think that we are being generous. We ‘give’ of our bounty - which boils down to a pittance. We blame them for their plight, their parents and anyone but ourselves for circumstance and self righteously go to our upscale homes, drink our pretentious wine, eat our frivolous foods and scoff at the pathetic dregs. We ain’t scared of you God! You keep blessin’ us don’t you?
God just so you know… we are the boss of everything we Americans, You are not. We give lip service to submitting to you but we both know we don’t mean it deep down where it counts. After all, you gave us all of this might and power to use cuz you think that we are the REAL chosen ones right God? And we think the Jews are darned fine folk since they know you too - in their weird Old Testament kinda way… I mean sheesh God. We are practically so great that we didn’t need to be saved! What? What do you mean maybe we are not?

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