From time to time you get smacked with a real world example of just how hypocritical your holier-than-thou acquaintances on the evangelical right can be. You see that whenever money is involved, their hifalutin morals and values get awfully slippery. They will steal from the poor, despoil the planet, burden their children and their childrens children with impossible debt unto the seventh generation while screaming about the injustice of paying taxes. They belittle their mothers and sisters as less worthy than their fathers and brothers. They embrace stupidity and superstition as a shield against responsibility. My childhood Sunday School lessons taught me that Jesus wanted us to care for the poor, the sick, the sinners and the downtrodden. We were taught that it was better to give than to receive and to love one another as oneself. We were told to be fair and honest and, in a very real sense, to be Christ-like. You might say that I left the church in order to find Jesus. He doesnt live in churches anymore. He went walkabout 2000 years ago. The prosperity gospel of the mega-church preachers is heresy. The marriage of evangelicals to the haters and racists in the Tea Party and the ultra conservative movement is proof positive that the Church long ago became godless. I havent ever seen that same level of greed and dishonesty and bigotry and hypocrisy among secular humanists. The very definition of humanist implies service to man. The humanists I know, oddly enough, are also the very best Christians I know. I went looking for Jesus when still a young man. I found him staring back at me not in the plastic expressions of the pious, but from the real faces of non-believers. He is kindness, compassion, selflessness, comfort to the dying, love undemanding, and courage when its needed most. I dont have to die to meet him. He is my hero. Jesus is a Humanist.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:37:47 +0000
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