Message #20373

[uselesslegs]

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I know Christians who live their Christianity and I know Christians who wear it.

The former don't assume and require no prerequisites, they just do, and they do so without the need for praise or recognition of themselves or their religion as the source that they feel inspired those deeds or actions.

The latter...talk. Help is conditional and suspicions abound. "Pat me on the head and give my religion a shout out", is par for the course. Politics defines their religion, as much as their religion defines their politics. The two are inseparable and they can't fathom how you can separate them and still call yourself a Christian.

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The new crop of Conservative Christian (at least from my observations) seem to find Capitalism and Christianity interchangeable, or at least somehow not so far removed from one another. In what exactly...I'm not sure. Somewhere along the way, they've decided Jesus not only wants them to be fabulously wealthy, but would excuse (or find little problem with) being so at the expense of others or society.  While I could imagine Jesus probably not really being down with...the lazy...I also don't think he'd really be down with redefining what the lazy is, in an effort to accommodate and re-imagine a religion that finds immeasurably more favor with the wealthy over the poor, infirm/elderly. I mean otherwise, most of his supposed ministry and the major theme/'s/messages therein, become moot.