The episode of Way of the Master that debuted today on TBN uses the army as a metaphor for Christian evangelicalism. While the show was entertaining and contained many powerful religious testimonies, the idea of "Christian solders" gives me shivers.For starters, viewing your religious faith as a call to battle is reminiscent of the same violent Islamic jihads plaguing the Middle East.
Secondly, if I spent my life spreading a message of peace, equality, and love, then someone decided to use war as a metaphor for my message, I would quickly grow vexed in that they promote the opposite of what I taught and attach my name to their message. They would be as hypocrites and liars.
If Christians are to an army, then who would Jesus kill?
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WWJK?
ReplyDeleteFor God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. Matthew 15:4
- Disobediant Children
17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Matthew 5:17
- Everyone killed in the Old Testament
And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. Mark 5:13
- Pigs
Why Jesus? Why the innocent pigs? Why didn't you just kill the unclean spirits with MegaJesusPowahh?
Good point, Quasar.
ReplyDeleteGod has very odd ways of showing what an all-powerful being he truly is. At least back in the OT days, he would show up now and then riding a horse or in a column of smoke.
ReplyDeleteTake Numbers 16:42 "But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the Tent of Meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared."
The glory of the Lord appeared. What does that mean? Whatever it means, why hasn't the glory of the Lord appeared anywhere recently?
Well, he has appeared to us, you know.
ReplyDeleteMary in grilled cheese sandwiches.
The word Allah in cuts of beef.
God is trying to reach out to us! As we all know, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
I like Genesis 18:1-8, where God and His angels sit down with Abraham and have lunch.
ReplyDeleteVery chummy.
I don't think Jesus would have much of a problem killing people.
ReplyDelete"Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's foes will be those of his own household."
Matthew 10:34-35 (Jesus speaking)
So much for jebus the "messiah" fulfilling that whole peace prophecy.
Bush already said we are back in crusade times...
ReplyDeleteI wrote a letter to the editor of our local newspaper in response to a Patwa put out by Pat Robertson who decreed that the president of Venezuela should be killed.
ReplyDeleteThe title was: Who Would Jesus Do?
I can't believe they actually printed it. I live in a state so conservative it makes Oklahoma look like Massachusetts, and it still got printed.
Good times. Good times.
quasar: "Why Jesus? Why the innocent pigs? Why didn't you just kill the unclean spirits with MegaJesusPowahh?"
ReplyDeleteI guess the real story was that he frightened the pigs when he tried to set the insane man's mind right. They ran away, so he and his adherents went after them to catch them before anyone would notice their fuck-up. Unfortunately, there was a cliff. So they had to quickly invent an ad-hoc explanation why the pigs went down for some good ad-hoc reason. The more gullible and uneducated the people are, the easier it is to make up anything on the spot to cover your ass.
I just wish we could come up with a airborne agent that took away the 'sickness' of the mind in atheists.
ReplyDeleteThe world would definitely be a better place! AMEN!
I just wish we could come up with a airborne agent that took away the 'sickness' of the mind in Terry.
ReplyDeleteThe world would definitely be a better place! rAMEN!
"I guess the real story was that he frightened the pigs when he tried to set the insane man's mind right. They ran away, so he and his adherents went after them to catch them before anyone would notice their fuck-up. Unfortunately, there was a cliff. So they had to quickly invent an ad-hoc explanation why the pigs went down for some good ad-hoc reason. The more gullible and uneducated the people are, the easier it is to make up anything on the spot to cover your ass."
ReplyDeleteAnd I'd say that even back then, nobody who was actually there was stupid enough to believe their ad-hoc story. But Mark wrote it down, so that makes it so much more believable these days.