As I was writing about Heather in my previous post, and visiting pages referencing the support rallying up for her and her family, I stumbled upon
The Blogger's Choice Awards.Among the categories there is a Best Religion Blog one, where I found
The Ain't Christian blog,
The English Atheist and
The Jesus Christ Arcade.
I was quietly impressed by the contrast of the two: On the one side, trust towards life, the acceptance, the belief, the total abandonment to God's hands. With Faith so true and pure as in a child's smile to her father. And on the other side the denial, the anger those posts exuded.
It's not as if people believing in different faith systems are evil. All people have, all along human History believed in all sorts of religions, and some of them have come up with some impressive results in human values, artistic creation and scientific progress.
I hate it when people are being dogmatic about how everyone should burn in hell if they do not follow their faith.
Philip says to Nathaniel: "Come and see". What happened in later years through the violent expansion of Christianity over the pagan nations, had nothing to do with Christ and everything to do with ego and power struggles.
The truth I have experienced in my life is that WE do not choose Christ, but that it is Christ who, in different stages of our lives, and under different circumstances, makes the first step and the second, and the third, and calls out our name. THEN we get to decide which way we'll go, and what we'll do with our lives.
On top of that, I came across
this post over at Terri's, and it made so much sense!..Writes Terri about the faulse prophets that are increasingly flooding the bookshelves, the internet, the T.V. screens. And she hits the nail right on the spot, so I am not going to say anything more. Just visit her and let me know (and her) what you think.
