Christianity
How are we meant to live with a name
so mangled? This religion that has a history so marked?
We are so human…
Atheism vs Christianity google an article
on either and you’ll see ragged back lashing from either side. Except the Christians
claim to love them, Christians say it, but don’t seem to show it.
Where is Jesus?
I am a 17 year old girl living in
rural New Zealand. A backwater compared
to the rest of the world I’m sure. I spend most of my time studying and
working, realizing that this what is expected of a middle class woman and that I’ll
probably be doing one or the other for the rest of my life.
How does this all relate? I’m not sure;
maybe it’s a young person who’s trying to point out what is wrong in the world,
what’s wrong with her religion, and what’s mixed up in the fact that in the
academic world my opinion is nothing. That my life must somehow be the same
because I don’t have enough money for a P.H.D. the only thing that lets you
have an opinion.
That because I am a ‘good Christian girl”
nobody is ever going to want my advice, my help, or my words. That because I've never been raped, tortured,
attempted suicide or been beaten I can’t legitimately help in things I believe
need it the most. That no prostitute is ever going to listen to me because I know
nothing. And maybe things are meant to be that way. Maybe I’ll live my life,
get a job, get a house, get married have kids and die in a rest home.
Or maybe there is a God out there
who is bigger than my circumstances, who say it doesn't have to be that way.
That it could be a lot more adventurous, a lot more giving and a whole lot
harder.
Or maybe I’m meant to wait in a pew
until I get my calling thrust upon me.
I’m pretty sure the guy who said
give yourself as living sacrifice didn't have passive waiting in mind. Not that
waiting is a bad thing. But for me it’s never really worked.
I guess what I am saying to myself
and every Christian out there is we have to do something real. Regardless of
the fact that someday the world will end. Regardless of the fact that goodness
and heaven are somehow linked. We have
to find it in ourselves to reach out for the good of ourselves and the good of
the world.
Rant over
