Pseudo-Christianity: 5/8 Rant

Gay marriage, abortion, activist liberal judges, the liberal aids conspiracy, there's a war on Christmas and Easter and family values!... white girls are being abducted at an alarming rate! Islam is going to destroy us all! The moral fabric of our society is in shambles because of the disease that is the Democratic Party.

The people bitching the loudest about being persecuted for their Christianity aren't Christians at all. They're demagogues and conmen and scolds. The only thing that they worship is power. They use these claims to manipulate and terrify you into following them, because they are the way... the only ones you can trust because they believe in the lord and savior Jesus Christ. Because they're better than you... because they are closer to the divine and can actually talk to god; but you can't, so you're just going to have to take their word for it.

"If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich or raping the Earth or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs."--Bill Maher

Thomas Jefferson called the type of Christian who trumpets his own belief in the divinity of Jesus rather than the morality of Jesus, a Pseudo-Christian... and that's who's running our country today.

You might be a Pseudo-Christian if you...
-Claim to be a Christian, but don't follow the teachings of Christ.
-Lead a life of materialism, selfishness and disregard for the impact of your life on your fellow man and the Earth on which we all depend.
-Are intolerant of the lifestyles of others.
-Only have compassion for those who believe as you do.
-Disregard Jesus' admonition against the sin of violence, including and especially war.
-Interpret some version of the Bible in whatever manner suits your pre-determined beliefs.

The Bible is not, as the Bible-ists would have others believe, the "Word of God".
The Bible is, rather, a complex and often contradictory recording of innumerable oral histories. In many cases those oral histories are of uncertain origin. And there is no one Bible. There are thousands of translations of that record of oral histories, modified by various religious persuasions to suit their own purposes. Remember, the printing press didn't exist 2,000 years ago... not even 500 years ago.

People like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell make me want to vomit everytime I hear them open their hateful, judgemental, prejudice, lying mouths. I can almost see the bullshit pouring out of their ears. I was raised a Christian, and I think I know what it means to think and act like Jesus a little better than these clowns... so that's why I'm not going to say that these "reverands" are about as close as you get to the anti-christ and devil himself... (oops). Seriously though, the Christian-Right hasn't stopped to check out the New Testament for a pretty long time now. I think it's time for a Bible Study!

By the way, this isn't a self-righteous post. I'm not claiming to be a better, or smarter Christian... even a Christian at all. I don't believe in categorizing and conforming to any particular belief system. Christianity has a lot of great ideas, and it's sad that the person the religion is named after is being completely ignored. At least I'm not preaching my beliefs and constantly contradicting them. Nobody's perfect, but I just can't help hating blatant hypocrits.

Want to see what Pat Robertson is really like? Here's Robertson uncensored:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XQaUfgCrWGo&search=pat%20robertson