Comments on: Cut ‘em Loose http://passionburnswithin.com/2009/03/30/cut-em-loose/ ramblings of a passionate YP Mon, 24 May 2010 23:36:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brad http://passionburnswithin.com/2009/03/30/cut-em-loose/#comment-56 Brad Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:58:27 +0000 http://passionburnswithin.wordpress.com/?p=220#comment-56 It seems to me religion is used a great deal for personal gain. Most people are willing to trust a fellow "christian" when that is the only "virtue" they claim. I use the term christian and virtue here very loosely since both are given to great bouts of personal and professional hypocrisy. I also believe church (insert denomination) leadership is mostly to blame for such behavior since most of the leadership was pleased to attract a growing crowd and their new found demagoguery. Faith is something you have or you don't and people have been paying that with nothing but lip service for too long. It is time for christians to start cleaning up their own house and publicly. When you catch one of your own consciously going against what ever doctrine your specific church/denomination believes in, it needs to be made public be they layman or clergy; ordinary joe or celebrity. When they beg forgiveness with words you know are crap, it is up to you to tell them you think they are full of it. If you take away the prestige, political power and economic influence so called personal faith has associated with it, you will find those that remain are the ones who truly have faith in the words you preach, rather than just seeing a new "in" for their own motives. It seems to me religion is used a great deal for personal gain. Most people are willing to trust a fellow “christian” when that is the only “virtue” they claim. I use the term christian and virtue here very loosely since both are given to great bouts of personal and professional hypocrisy. I also believe church (insert denomination) leadership is mostly to blame for such behavior since most of the leadership was pleased to attract a growing crowd and their new found demagoguery. Faith is something you have or you don’t and people have been paying that with nothing but lip service for too long.

It is time for christians to start cleaning up their own house and publicly. When you catch one of your own consciously going against what ever doctrine your specific church/denomination believes in, it needs to be made public be they layman or clergy; ordinary joe or celebrity. When they beg forgiveness with words you know are crap, it is up to you to tell them you think they are full of it. If you take away the prestige, political power and economic influence so called personal faith has associated with it, you will find those that remain are the ones who truly have faith in the words you preach, rather than just seeing a new “in” for their own motives.

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