Theocentric Musings

  The reason we live in a "godless society" is because most American Christians™ don't seem to know the God Jesus showed the world. They mostly know an amalgamation of Egyptian and Greek false gods that love violence, kill their enemies, and rely on might not mercy to overcome.

  I cringe when I notice myself, or others, giving more grace and mercy to a stranger than we do our own family members or people in other close relationships with us. It's doubly disturbing when it happens in a marriage, or committed relationship, where the couple should be a 3 stranded cord with God. It's not of God for us to behave in this manner, we fool ourselves if we believe we are acting in agreement with Him. Actions directed by Love are always the better way, always.

What they sing: "Lord you are good and your mercy endureth forever!" What they believe: "Lord you are frightening and your wrath endureth forever!"

It's funny, the ones that believe the strongest in mainstream Christianity's version of "Hell" are also the ones that support sending as many people as possible to that place by killing them as swiftly as they can in retribution for anything. It's not that they intentionally show mercy, a Christ-like mercy, so that the people have a lifetime's chance to come to the saving knowledge of Christ. Nope, it's just "blow them the "f" off the planet.", even if they are youth. Makes perfect sense.

  Sounds good on paper, but there's one thing that gets forgotten. You do have to actually be compassionate to be "compassionate". The definition of compassionate is a deep feeling of sympathy and sorrow for another. Synonyms of compassiona te are commiserate, mercy, tenderness, clemency. Look up the definitions of these words. How many that share a trope like this one actually express compassion? 90%? 75%? 50%? 25%? 10%? 5%? 1%? Based on my experience not many are actually compassionate, that's saddens me because it takes a great message and turns it into an ugly platitude. So maybe there are 3 huge lies our culture has accepted, the 3rd would be that our culture has redefined being compassionate into some kind of caricature of it's true meaning, and have actually redefined it as compassion's antonyms. Our culture, including the Christian culture, loves to speak crass while pointing out other people's shortcomings with vitriol, usually whi...

You know, I realize that the enemy does attack us frequently, I will never, ever, say he doesn't, but I'm not far from being convinced that some go through much more spiritual warfare because they focus so much on spiritual warfare and it completely infiltrates and fills their beliefs to the point where their world revolves around spiritual warfare and they end up inadvertently opening a door to t hese attacks. I base this on the experience of focusing completely on God's love, peace, mercy, and grace and letting it so infiltrate and fill your beliefs to the point where you end up walking and living out a love, peace, mercy, and grace that most people, even Christians, don't understand or find confusing. Your whole world revolves around God's love, peace, mercy, and grace and no matter what comes against you, that's what manifests itself in your life and actions.