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Name: Eustace Clarence Scrubb
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Gender: Male
Interests: learning, meeting new people, laughing with strangers, frindships based on acceptance not goals, giving.
Expertise: I am mildly proficient at several instruments and once spent a good deal of time being a dragon at which time i was an expert hunter and could fly, but that is over now.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Member Since:
1/24/2005
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| So i don't really have much to talk about today. Just wanted to check in so that peopel would know i was still alive. | | |
| This is in response to Rankor's comment on my last entry.
I completely agree with you that most organzed religon sucks, and i think that that is what i am trying to do here. I am trying to delineate, and maybe find some people that agree with me along the way, why true christianity is not only reconciliable to, but almost requires a significant deviation from tradition to work. The reality is that Christ says others will know we are christians by our love , not our cheesy christian t-shirts or the fact that we don't smoke or our ability to criticize homosexuals. Christ himself said "let him without sin cast the first stone." I am embarrassed by the self-absorbed christian church, and am shamed at the gratuitious misinterpretations of the Bible that allow people to justify gossip and conceit while ignoring thewir own sin.
Christians are called to love and accept all people regardless of their lifestyle. Acceptance does not equal endorsement, but endorsement does not equal acceptance either. the day i can't spend time with my gay friends or hang out with my co-workers on their smoke break or offer a freind a lighter when they need to light up is when i will know that i no longer am following Christ. | | |
| so this is something i don't get. 
This sign was on the front of a church building downtown, and we wonder why people are so bitter against christianity. It seems mildly ironic that we would prosecute homeless people for coming to a church that allegedly follows the doctrine of a man that once said "foxes have holes and birds have nests but the son of man has no place to lay his head." | | |
| so it's new i guess. My friends wanted me to try this out and i thought, what the heck, why not. Hopefully i don't suck at it. I couldn't figure life out today. I was downtown in the early afternoon and i watched an entire church of people empty directly past a homeless man, and not a single person offer to hlep him be "warmed or filled." I think christians have forgotten the meaning of christianity. Is christianity really more about going to church than feeding the homeless? They wonder why so many of the youth of our country want nothing to do with the God they say they serve, and perhaps it is simply because they don't really serve him. Why is it wrong to offer love without strings attatched. It is as if we believe that any time spent on loving an a non-christian is wasted time unless that person comes to Christ. That's "grade A" Bull Shit. God did not say to "Love one another in direct proportion to how many church services they make it to a week." No, Christ said "love one another as i have loved you", and how did he love us? By dying for all humanity even knowing that some woudl never come to him. He loved each person enough to lay down his life for even the ones he knew would reject him, and that is what we are called to offer the world. Not pretty sermons or eloquent prayers or soft and simply music. Just love, but a love with no strings attatched. | | |
| this is the first post, more to follow. | | |
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