Caution: Religious Bigotry at work!

Why is it that we Christians always seem to be against things! It's like we are always focused on the things we hate, dislike, are evil, do harm, cause problems, are bad for you ... etc!


I got hit yesterday by the evils of vampires. Vampires! are you kidding? I am sure that people for the most part are well intentioned and truly believe that cataclysmic damnation is coming upon anyone who reads "____________" you fill in the blank (It changes all the time) but the reality is that we do more harm with our religious hysteria than good.

When did God ever intend for us to become the guard dogs of someone else's personal conscious? Why do we use our own convictions (misguided as they often are) as the standard of righteous living for everyone else? What arrogance! What blind religious bigotry.

Oh, I know the preponderance of scriptures that are used to defend one position over another and then all the cries of "loving the sinner but hating the sin" as justification to put forth your own agenda, interpretation or denominational bias on people!

We expect people to embrace our convictions or else they are wrong, damned, imperiled, deceived or blinded by Satan. The next step is we write them off and have nothing to do with them. Yeah, that’s Christ like!

We use the scriptures as weapons of mass destruction to intimidate, hurt, accuse and attack people and the whole while believe we are doing God's will. (An example of this is the nice people from Westboro Baptist Church spewing forth their hateful venom at Gays and US servicemen) Ah, the Love of God in action!

I thought the Holy Spirit was the one that worked on men's hearts to bring them to Christ.

I thought the ministry gifts were put in the church to help build up and edify people.

I though God would move in my life and circumstances to bring me into a closer walk with Him.

Why are we trying to do God's work - man's way?

Col 2:20-23 If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world's crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?--such as]
21Do not handle [this], Do not taste [that], Do not even touch [them],
22Referring to things all of which perish with being used. To do this is to follow human precepts and doctrines.
23Such [practices] have indeed the outward appearance [that popularly passes] for wisdom, in promoting self-imposed rigor of devotion and delight in self-humiliation and severity of discipline of the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh (the lower nature). [Instead, they do not honor God but serve only to indulge the flesh.] (AMP)

I love this scripture! Why are we trying to make other people serve God by imposing rules and regulations and even what movies to see or not see? This is only religious man trying to satisfy his own sense of "moral uprightness" and it is a sham, a joke and a dishonor to God!

Stop trying to be someones conscious! We have the word of God and the Holy Spirit to do that. People answer to Him not to you. Stop judging other's lives and actions and accept people and love them where they are at!

If you don’t agree with me - pray for me and entrust me into the hand of the one who started the work in my life and He claims that He is faithful to finish it.

I really believe that in reaching out to the world and in my everyday relationships we should live by the Moravian principle "In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things, love."

Essentials: God loves us and Jesus died for our sins and if I receive Him as my savior I am a child of God

Nonessentials: Everything else!

Try it - you might see a big difference in the way people react to you when you love them instead of always trying to control them or change them!