Conservative and Liberal Christians: Winning! Losing!

It kills me that people say this country was built on Christian values and common sense. This country was built by men who killed and stole from a people who were already here to promote themselves.

It also kills me that people isolate scripture from the Bible to prove a point. I can prove anything through scripture splitting. The Bible is about God, not about us. The second we start to believe that the bible tells us how to promote ourselves, we are out of context. Focus on God, not yourself, and that is where the blessings are. His will, not yours…and that is the truth for accumulating wealth and finding “happiness” in earthly things. Wealth and earthly things are not bad, they are real…but it has been in my poorest and sickest times in my life that I have known God the deepest, which only leads me to believe that if you live your life trying to stay out of pain and sufferring, that you are missing Blessings. So start doing the work that Jesus talks about and stop thinking about your next move to aquire something for yourself. It is through giving that we become the most like Jesus, and it is through the fruit of the spirit that we experience joy. The rest is fleeting.

So Kory, you can live your life thinking that your version of the Bible is right, and that your accumulation of wealth is something that you deserve because you worked for it…but it isn’t so. Your accumulation of wealth is because the system is set up to make wealthy people wealthier and poor people poorer. Most of us have been struggling to put food on the table, not money in the bank, and nice cars in our driveways…and a good many of us have been stripped of our savings because of a banking system that has been built on the greed of man. Entitlement is the largest disease of this country, and even if you don’t live your life thinking you are entitled, the disease affects everyone very deeply and daily.

The bible is not about you. It is about God. Read it. Read it all. Please. Read it as if it is a gift for you, and respect it, not for your own benefit, but for God’s benefit.

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Agree with the title – at least the non-parenthetical pert. I make decisions based on facts and data… Something that theology is sorely lacking. There is nothing to suggest of an afterlife. Morality can be defined by causing pain to others. Denying people the opportunity to enjoy life is generally immoral. Forcing views on another person is equally immoral. Arguing is a waste of time. I’m done with the whole religion thing.

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