Good morning, as you have read in the title today we are serving up a slice of the Devil's Pie. Over the course of my break a lot of things have come up so I actually have enough ammunition to keep it going for a few days. In today's segment I am going to speak on something that will offend a lot of people and if they read it get a negative reaction from the family. But here it goes.
Ok here it is, If you are a newly found Christian or even a seasoned Vet please read more than the weekly scripture before you look to criticize others around you. I had a discussion with a friend not too long ago whereas they asked me how can I speak about God or Jesus when I have never had a relationship with either. Of course this sent me off into a descending spiral of mixed emotions. But then as I pulled up out of my nose dive and I realized that I had been to this place before. So instead of getting bent out of shape I decided to correct the statement and to deal with it at it's core. Cult leaders, religious zealots, and the like please control your flock until they have proven a propensity for the sect. Allowing just anyone to run around spewing rhetoric is detrimental to the cause. Oh yeah it also looks bad on the rest of you.
The comment that my friend made offended me simply because, this is a person that I know all too well. I know things about this person that I shouldn't know. I have watched their life as if it was a television program going in and out of one chaotic even to the next. But yet now this person sees fit to question my beliefs. The same beliefs that tried to get them to see the destructive nature in which they where living their life. The same beliefs that whilst I was following them they looked at me and said that I was boring and uneventful. As I pointed out to this person during our brief discussion I have had a relationship with God for many years now and just because they can not understand my relationship does not mean that it does not exist. This problem is not with my friend but instead with Religion. Religions all over the world teach you that anyone who does not believe as you believe is wrong and should be persecuted. This no matter how base or vile is the truth. The Christians and all of their divisions feel this way. The Muslims feel this way. The Jews also believe this. You know if you look at this through the window it tells you one thing. According to the multiple interpretations of the scripture Heaven will always be empty and we are all damned.
It is my humble but pointed opinion that Religion is the extension of man trying to rationalize God. Man has devised a way to use God as a regulator of man and as a means to enforce laws and wills. The spirit behind the religions I believe with out reservation or doubt but the religions themselves I have no taste for. Religion has long kept people divided. As a black man this is very apparent, we suffered through the civil rights movement because the leaders who where Christian refused to work with those who weren't. Thus causing us as a people to lose out. It was because of religious persecution that the first settlers came to America. It was in the name of religion that the Medieval Inquisitions took place. It is in the Name of religion that the Muslims fight with the world today. All in all the only thing that Religion has brought us since it's inception is war and death. But yet no one will acknowledge this fact.
So I say again please lock up your new converts until they are better suited to speak for your religion because if they cross my path I will shake their faith.
Have a good day.
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Ok here it is, If you are a newly found Christian or even a seasoned Vet please read more than the weekly scripture before you look to criticize others around you. I had a discussion with a friend not too long ago whereas they asked me how can I speak about God or Jesus when I have never had a relationship with either. Of course this sent me off into a descending spiral of mixed emotions. But then as I pulled up out of my nose dive and I realized that I had been to this place before. So instead of getting bent out of shape I decided to correct the statement and to deal with it at it's core. Cult leaders, religious zealots, and the like please control your flock until they have proven a propensity for the sect. Allowing just anyone to run around spewing rhetoric is detrimental to the cause. Oh yeah it also looks bad on the rest of you.
The comment that my friend made offended me simply because, this is a person that I know all too well. I know things about this person that I shouldn't know. I have watched their life as if it was a television program going in and out of one chaotic even to the next. But yet now this person sees fit to question my beliefs. The same beliefs that tried to get them to see the destructive nature in which they where living their life. The same beliefs that whilst I was following them they looked at me and said that I was boring and uneventful. As I pointed out to this person during our brief discussion I have had a relationship with God for many years now and just because they can not understand my relationship does not mean that it does not exist. This problem is not with my friend but instead with Religion. Religions all over the world teach you that anyone who does not believe as you believe is wrong and should be persecuted. This no matter how base or vile is the truth. The Christians and all of their divisions feel this way. The Muslims feel this way. The Jews also believe this. You know if you look at this through the window it tells you one thing. According to the multiple interpretations of the scripture Heaven will always be empty and we are all damned.
It is my humble but pointed opinion that Religion is the extension of man trying to rationalize God. Man has devised a way to use God as a regulator of man and as a means to enforce laws and wills. The spirit behind the religions I believe with out reservation or doubt but the religions themselves I have no taste for. Religion has long kept people divided. As a black man this is very apparent, we suffered through the civil rights movement because the leaders who where Christian refused to work with those who weren't. Thus causing us as a people to lose out. It was because of religious persecution that the first settlers came to America. It was in the name of religion that the Medieval Inquisitions took place. It is in the Name of religion that the Muslims fight with the world today. All in all the only thing that Religion has brought us since it's inception is war and death. But yet no one will acknowledge this fact.
So I say again please lock up your new converts until they are better suited to speak for your religion because if they cross my path I will shake their faith.
Have a good day.
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