Theocentric Musings

I notice a whole lot of Christians supporting American Sniper , and almost to a tee they say one of the main reasons is because "America needs a hero." I keep wondering why they of all people don't think Jesus is a hero enough for this country. To me He's the Hero of the Universe... ‪#‎ AmericanSniper‬ ‪#‎ JesusisarealHero‬ ‪#‎ JesuswasaHerobygivingHislifeforothersnottakinglives

  It really is sad. Way too frequently a church opens up in America that teaches a community to worship an amalgamation of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian gods and the real Jesus image of God get's locked away.   It is becoming a normal occurrence that those in power don't feel people are responsible enough to handle the complete, accurate image of God that is so exceedingly, abundantly, scandalously good.   It's a shame that these facilities call themselves Christian, when they d on't teach to follow the one true God, Jesus Christ, but to follow Zeus, Hades, Ra, Horus, Mars, Janus, etc.   Is Jesus in your church or counterfeits? One good way of finding out is whether your church seems to draw all the ragamuffins of this world, as our Savior did, or just a bunch of white washed tombs.

  So the church is so convicted that they have to preach messages against homosexuality and get involved with politics to force morality on the world, yet they seem to hardly ever address the racism and bigotry that is prevalent in the Western church, and their communities, which is actually a very real and disheartening issue. If God would judge America for anything, it'd be that...

If we Christians in America had to face real persecution or lack of freedoms, we wouldn't throw accusations like that around so haphazardly. My personal belief is that most of what we call persecution in our coddled society is disgraceful to the memories of the true martyrs and the experiences of those really facing persecution or lack of freedom. When you can go on Facebook and let people know you're about to go to church, singing worship songs in your car, with your church bumper sticker or Jesus fish, handing out a tract, or saying Jesus loves you to someone you pass, and walking into a building to worship together with no fear of it being burnt down with you inside of it, being yanked out and watching your children being chopped up with a machete, and your spouse being taken to a reeducation camp and being tortured for the rest of their life, you aren't facing persecution. Yes, I think it's a disgrace for our well fed, big gulp drinking, Big Mac eating, Walmart h...