Christian Hypocrisy

I was livid today, when in church, our minister mentioned that a lesbian couple had been asked to leave three different churches.Now, I'm not naive, I know that this has gone on in the past, but within the recent past, come on, I thought we had finally made it thorough the discriminatory phase in Christianity. How naive and how wrong I was.

Chritianity's ranks are fading, not because people don't believe in a higher power but increasingly don't believe that the higher power should be used to persecute others; those that by virtue of belief or lifestyle don't fall into rank.

We have a divided house on Christianity and that house is falling, slowly imploding from within because of intolerance and antiquated dogma that alienates rather than enjoin. I see too many so called Christians walking a road which slouches toward inhumanity rather than advance a common humanity.

Christian hypocrisy is borne of a singular fixation on the dated, the antiquated, "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" type mentality. That mentality is
the product of a rigid interpretation of biblical scripture and an adherence to fundamentalist moral codes.

Somewhere in this mix, God has been left out. What we get in the narrowly constructed concepts of Christian morality is a fix on mortal weakness and certainly not the vested conduct of "love thy neighbor."

How dare Christians use the cause of righteous indignation to persecute others and then throw it back on a higher power. What we believe at this stage and to what degree we've advanced is the direct result of our inclination to love, to move over when others are different, to move beyond the self imposed exile of ignorance, to father the words of forgiveness and to marry the likes of a kind heart with that of an open hand.

When power is truly returned to Christianity, the morning becomes a light, a beacon, and the night is none to be feared.The shadows where we hide with our wrong open to the rays of the sun and there is room for all to be blessed.