6 Feet Under Ain’t Heaven
Televangelists are amongst the most zealous and fundamentalist of all Christians with the penchant of preaching one thing but doing another. They are the most likely to be hypocritical of all the Christians in the world. They have power, money and influence but no grasp of the problems of the common man.
Labour unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers. *
Men like Ted Haggard (the preacher who did Meth and slept with his homosexual prostitute) and Pat Robinson (he suggested that Chavez be overthrown/assassinated) claim to be men of God but are really the worse sinners. They espouse moral values without knowing how to follow said values themselves. The prefer to find arbitrary scapegoats for problems stemming from political irresponsibility and social progression that seems contrary to the “teachings” of the Bible.
Or that some how, being ‘secular’ and keeping all religion out of the public office has led to a downfall in public morals despite that there is no one true religion and that not all Americans are Christians and not all American Christians are the followers of the same denomination of Christianity.
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.*
In regards to the Bible, these types always pick and choose that which is symbolic and that which ought to be taken literally, and they omit certain passages from literal interpretation because it fails to fit their agenda despite that the Bible is supposed to be in the Christian sense the full and complete word of God right down to the last “and” and “but”.
Jesus is the centre piece of Christianity and he is considered the son of God and his teachings included and were not limited to peace, harmony, the equal treatment of one’s peers, acceptance and plethora of long haired hippie teachings which contradicts the basic fundamentals of how Christianity is supposed to be according to the most prominent preachers in America today.
These people never stop to ask, “what would Jesus say?” If they had, would they say something like…
I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’ *
No, they wouldn’t have. They would have turned the other cheek; love the sinner not the sin. But it doesn’t fit the agenda does it? It doesn’t fit the agenda of hatemongering. It is too harmonious; it doesn’t incite passion and provoke reaction. It’s too pacifistic.
People like the late Jerry Falwell do nothing more than divide America up because they are unable to see past their self-imposed blinders of social exile. They fail to join the rest of the world in progressing towards equality simply because they have decided that because it’s in the Bible and God is condemning it that it must be wrong.
But Leviticus is in the Bible too and it permits the ownership of slavery, the selling of daughters, animal sacrifice, the type of cloth one may wear. Many of these passage types are ignored while those involving sexual conduct, (interpreted as being anti-gay) are readily followed.
And ‘let he who is without sin cast the first stone’… is in the Bible but how many preachers honestly follow this? They are not sin-free; no human is sin free, after all, we have said and done stuff that others may consider sinful or detrimental that we don’t think qualifies as such.
Or that having no religion makes you a bad or immoral person.
If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.*
These people act like the judge, jury and executioner despite that they judging someone without expecting to be judged. This is where the holier-than-thou attitude stems from. They believe that because they are preachers of God’s word that they are able to act as judges on behalf of God. But they forget that they will be judged in the end as they claim that sinners will be.
In the end, they will indeed be judged but not by God but by those who survived them. The media and the rest of the world will look at that they have done and make their own judgements and the verdict will not be favourable because people like Falwell are seen as hypocrites who had distorted the true nature of Christianity for their own gains and agenda; they are the hijackers of faith.
Those who followed such preachers will try and convince the rest of the world that those of us who are speaking out are liberal immoral anti-god scum who want to morally corrupt children. Or that somehow writing down negative responses about what the man stood for is someone celebrating his death. They don’t see the difference between condemning the actions and condemning the person. They see it as one in the same.
Those of us who seem “happy” that Falwell is dead don’t understand that our jubilation comes from the fact that we hated what the man stood for. We felt the world had enough mindless hate in it without his verbal diarrhoea defacing the walls.
The so-called ‘righteous’ will wind up the same as the immoral in the end, dead and 6 feet under because there is no heaven and they wasted their lives by bundling themselves in destructive hatred.
US evangelist Jerry Falwell dies
* a cross sampling of quotes from Falwell
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