It is indeed but as we enjoy ourselves, we should remember that in the case of the Abrahamic cults, Christianity and Islam, not reading their myths as myths has created and continues to create a lot of hardship for a lot of people.
Homophobia and misogyny are still rampant thanks to the Abrahamic cults.
Not to mention the Dark Ages against free thought and Inquisition or the present Jihad that we are fighting.
To not hate these religions is to give them merit they do not deserve.
Regards
DL
Some of what you say is true, As a Christian we have fallen WAY short .. To me most of the time it seems like as Christians when we hear about sinners sinning and we shake our heads and run our mouths.
The fires await them, we think. Then we bury our heads in our bibles and smile at how very holy we are. We attack homosexuals and democrats as if they had erupted from a crack traveling up from hell itself. And we feel satisfied with ourselves, and sing along with the songs playing on KSBJ Christian Radio and thank our God we’re not like them.
At times, God will show me something that I’m wrong about. I find myself humbled and thankful that he would be so kind to love me amidst such ignorance. Then, I encounter someone who is still wrong about that thing, and I immediately judge them for not being as spiritual as me. There’s something about us that habitually turns the best of gifts from undeserved grace into deserved judgment in our minds. So we start to believe that God’s love is something which began as grace, but soon enough began to sprout because God admired our goodness.
The love of God should leave us breathless. Hit us square in the gut, silencing our doubts and fears of never being fully accepted. It should be the water which nourishes our faith. But the awe has worn off and we’ve patted God on the shoulder, telling him that we’ll take it from here. And, now, it is pride which feeds us, fertilizing our hate. The one so deep in debt no amount of work could pay it back, freshly forgiven, is running the streets, pointing fingers at all the other debtors.
We were all born ugly and we’ve found our beauty. Should we then use it to shame others? Because God’s goodness has been superimposed over our evil, is our evil now acceptable?
Because we can’t be the things God desires of us, we don’t then humble ourselves before God as logic dictates, we raise up superficial works that can be easily accomplished as that which God desires. We baptize our opinions as law and wedge them into legitimate Scripture. These clownish replacements for God’s righteous demands make us
feelsuperior, and so we stand judge over anyone who dares oppose us.
Are we just saying Jesus’ death was a band-aid.
If it were ever about us, and our goodness, God would have sent a holy scoreboard for each believer. Instead, it is about what Jesus did. Because we’ve accepted his love, we’re not then better than others. We are humble receivers of a great gift.
We were the hungry, and having found food, we arrogantly judge other beggars for still being so hungry.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
God forgave us so that our sin is no longer the issue. We no longer have the demand of impossible rules to earn the favor of God, it was given to us freely by Christ. So what makes us so prideful? Is it because we can’t accept that it’s all free? Is it because we feel better thinking we’ve contributed?
All we have is grace.
We are thieves and liars, adopted by a good man who cancelled our debt and announced to the entire kingdom to put anything more to come on his account.
We are not fit to jab our fingers at anyone else’s failings.
That finger-pointing is sometimes why they laugh at us Christians and shake their heads. And we fret over us losing our moral authority, What moral authority? Please God, let us lose it... Let us have nothing but our sin at so arrogantly slapping the hands of others when our own are still so freshly bruised. Then remind us that sin is all we’ve ever had. It’s all we ever brought to the table. Even the table was yours, God.
