Once again the hate-filled church plans to dishonor another fallen American soldier with their bile laden picket signs. Their mantra is “Thank God for IEDs” as they call our military dead “fallen fools.”
On December 26 in Israel a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews spat on a little girl and called her a prostitute because they deemed her shirtsleeves to be immodest.
Each week we hear news of suicide bombers in the Middle East killing people who are not their flavor of Islam.
How is it that the one thing in our lives that should make us better people instead fosters extremism, hatred and cruelty? Extremism is a vice that eats away at our humanity and turns us into subhuman creatures willing to do anything. Often times religious people frighten me. If a man thinks he is doing God’s will by killing me he will do it with a smile on his face. They are more frightening than “bad people” who merely want my wallet.
It does not matter if one calls oneself a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, if one’s religious experience does not make one a more loving, more generous or more peaceful person they are deceived and are children of the disgraced one who was cast out of heaven. I am so happy I discovered who Jesus was when I was a child and was not yet aware of what is done in the name of religion. If I had not done so I am fearful I might never have been anything even closely associated with any religion. How delightful it is to know that real religion is one’s personal walk with God and not dependent on human associations.
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 10, 2012
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
Rogerbothwell.org