but wait there's more

I normally don't post this often, to be honest, I usually forget this is here, using it to jump start myself on those days when other writing is slow to come. But tonight I was watching a show on the 60's on PBS here in NYC and felt compelled to post something, at least for myself if no one else, (to be honest that is the only reason I write anything, but don't tell my clients etc).

What compelled me to write was the fact that many of the leaders of the revolutionary '60's, the fight against injustice, whether that injustice was war or poverty, many of the leaders were from the church. Which church? You name it. Baptist, Catholic, Jewish...it didn't matter. What mattered is that those brave people saw injustice and they took to the pulpit and to the streets and they raised their voices to fight it.

What do we have today?

Coiffed and groomed multi-millionaires who sometimes even charge people (Hey there Joel Osteen) to hear the "word of God". In so far as the word of God tells us it is good to be sucessful because when God talks about abundance he means money, clothes and cars. We get Criss Angel type healing (Benny my man!) or rock shows or preachers trying to show us and tell us how "hip" it is to be Christian and abstain from sex and drugs.

What we don't get is what Christ taught. What we don't get is His fight against what was wrong or unjust. What we don't get is his teaching of the peace that passes all understanding.

We get "Jukebox" Christianity. Pay your money and hear the song. Hell, I can get that from the Scientologists.

But the Mega preachers aren't alone. We also get nothing from our every day ministers, perhaps because they fear reprisal from the government, perhaps because they don't care or more than likely perhaps because their congregations don't care.

Our government is perpetrating great crimes against it own citizens and against the world at large, and yet our clergy stands silent.

The church stayed largely silent within Germany during WWII as well, and look at what went on there.

I get a lot of grief from folks who say that I tailor Christianity to suit me. Considering the state of Christianity in this country, can you blame me?

I'm gonna get a drink.

Peace,

RW