So I was looking for a t-shirt that I have seen on several people in passing but never cared enough until now to actually ask any of them where they got it.
In the process I found this bumper sticker. I like it. Because it is true, there are so many things that get started for the wrong reasons and Jesus, inevitably, is used as the driving force. I want it to stop! I am sick of feeling awkward to tell people that I am Christian, or to talk about my beliefs because I feel like if I talk about it too much people are going to think I'm going to convert them, suck them into some huge militant campaign (or military compaign for that matter), chide or degrade, or persecute them. And quite frankly, I am too busy worrying about my own inequities and sinfulness that I do not have time to chide others. And I'm sick of people thinking they're Christian when they are the most bigoted, small minded, exclusionary, blind people I know. Quite frankly, it does not matter who you love, who you hate, who you voted for, or who you work for, Jesus would rather we all get along than to see there be a "right" side to anything! Love is so much more important. And in the world today it is just a rarity that should be seen more.
People can use Jesus as the reason for many things, but the persecution of people--some of whom are, themselves, devout Christians--for any reason is NOT one of them. And a war certainly is not either!
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."--Mahatma Gandhi
oh, and by the way, the t-shirt was one that said: ___________________(name of fallen soldier) will not be voting. something, something, something, end war, vote, blah, blah, blah...if you know where I can get one PLEASE let me know!
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I like the one that says "Jesus, save me from your followers"
Also, some reading you might enjoy (as if you don't have enough already) are the works of John Shelby Spong
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