How is that for an utterly confounding title? Today has been rather confounding in a couple of ways. Over at my Reformed friends blog at Euangelion, I had an epiphany. I hate both liberals and conservatives. I have no patience for either side. Now the guys at Euangelion are A-Okay with me, it's Rhetoric of I'm right and you're wrong that sickens me and makes me wanna slap everyone from the Pope right down to the lowliest preacher in the most back water, mud hut, church.
That said, let me explain. Everyone thinks they have a right to discuss the bedroom of others and how that affects their ability to serve in the pulpit, at the altar, or dance naked for services, whatever...and that simply is not the case. First of all, sex should go back to the bedroom, and not be a matter of public discourse anymore! I'm sick of it. We have seen that from the highest of the height of the Roman Catholic hierarchy there was pedophiles, right down to Jimmy Swaggert making a damn fool of himself on TV weeping "I've sinned." Yeah, with a hooker you idiot. Then Jim Baker. Oh the list is endless and sickening.
The point is EVERYONE of them kicked around gays. The late, and for me not particularly lamented John Paul II, immediately said just don't let gay men be priests. The Evangelical/Pentecostals forgave old Swaggert, after all, it's natural to .... oh wait, is it natural to commit adultery? Ya know, now I'm thinking about the Ten Commandments. It says not one word about gay, queer, homosexual, or anything of the like. What does it mention? Oh yeah, Adultery.
And for those who think that imposing their view on everyone else, that the church can only function in this way and no other, I say read your bible. "Love triumphs over law." "Love covers a multitude of sins." "I reject your sacrifices because you do not show justice to the widow and the orphan."
Hmmm, what's that all about? What is wrong with people who think that this constant rending of the body of Christ over THEIR damn views is the way to go? Well woohoo, ain't we proud, we tore the Body of Christ again, just to get our way. And I point my finger at the liberal and conservative. I am sick of both of you. So keep your claptrap, and your cheap self serving religion.
A friend once said, "have faith, have love, the rest will follow." What would happen if we tried that?
So where does the waiting room fit in all this? I can't do a thing about any of it. I accept that it is the way things are. I accept the rending of the Body of Christ has been going on since their have been Christians and it will never, ever, ever stop. I reject all rigidity. I reject all new age-ity. If you have a true and deep relationship with Christ, then you will be on the right path no matter what. That is the waiting room I sit in now. That is the cross I will bear the rest of my life.
If you carry an opinion like one I've lambasted here, I should say I'm sorry, even though I want to say tough tots. But, I am sorry to have to hurt you to make you see that you are part of the rending.
1 comments:
Steve your on a roll so keep going. As someone who has a real problem with the need to be part of a Denomination I enjoyed your comments, but I note you still define yourself as Catholic (even if it is a mad one :D )
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