What can I say? Watch the
whole thing. (The end is the weirdest part.) It starts out weird enough, but then, right when you think you've seen it all, ooooh, I can't... you have to watch it for yourself. The kudos go to
the Raw Story for everything they do, and for the part they play in so many of our diaries..
It gave me a chill to the bone. I soooo wanted to believe that something so creepy could not exist on such a grand scale - blindness, pure blindness.
Our dear friend buhdydharma is definitely on to something.
After all, it's right there in the Bible:
Mark 13.22: "For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect
I was "taken advantage of" sexually 4 or 5 years earlier than I would have chosen that act to have taken place by someone that professed to have been "born again", and misused my trust in an abhorrent way. It woke me up really quickly to the reality of the so-called "holy" people..
And, with that awareness, it has seemed as though the aggresive religions, the ones who have to recruit others, they always seem to have something sexual attached to it.
I went to a Lutheran Church growing up (which had absolutely no relation to aforementioned "religious" unfortunate incident) - Christian, but very laid-back, real, down-to-earth, mean-what-they-say Christian.
Lightness, honesty, goodwill - I didn't know how lucky I was!
It is possible to be a Christian (or at least someone Christ would call a Christian, if not the heathens who pretend to speak for him) without forcing your views on anyone else, without being aggresive or judgemental or exclusive or arrogant (watch the video- really, the epitome of arrogance and hypocrisy - from a self-proclaimed "righteous" person - sickening!) I truly believe, as so many do, that if Christ were alive today, he would be showing the hypocrisy for what it is (the ol' splinter - beam scenario) like exactly what is happening now.
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Though, because of my harmful experience, I am not a Christian, per se, being a Taoist to the core, I feel more of a Christian than those who call themselves so, as I believe in everything, and I mean everything, Jesus stood for:
And Jesus looked around about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! And the disciples were astonished at his words... It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
It is true.
Do you believe Jesus' words? I do.