*** DISCLAIMER *** This is not intended for non-religious people. Non-religious people find the idea of sin offensive and anti-intellectual. If you identify as Atheist, Agnostic, Humanist, Wiccan, Pagan, or generally “lacking faith” – Don’t read this. It is irrelevant. You aren’t bound by a specific moral code. I don’t want to listen to your whining about how I “shoved my religion down your throat”. Go. Do unto others whatever you feel like doing.
My uncle used to say, “That boy is dumber than a bag of hammers.”
I don’t know much about tools but that seems pretty dumb.
Would a bag of drill bits be any smarter?
I’m getting off track.
Remember that time Jesus said, “You are the light of the world”?
You are the light of the world…let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
(Matthew 5:14)
While I don’t know much about tools – I know that hammers don’t light-up.
Not even a whole bag of them.
So if you’re going to shine, you need to be brighter than a hammer.
No light comes from statements like this:
If hammers could talk, that is something they would say.
The obvious answer to the question is: “No. We should not elect people who legalize killing babies.”
The less obvious, and infinitely dumber answer is: “There are many evil things in the world that aren’t abortion.”
I’m going to make a confession.
I didn’t know there are Christians this stupid.
I didn’t know it was possible to simultaneously profess faith in Christ and ambivalence toward killing children.
I learned that it’s not only possible, it’s common in the Church.
Christians.
Listen.
Stop trying to justify evil by pointing at more evil.
Evil is darkness.
No matter how much darkness you bring into a room you’re still blind.
You are supposed to light the world.
So quit being a bag of hammers.
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This morning, I was thinking about some things you have said, months earlier. I’m paraphrasing, but essentially when we have the Holy Spirit, we have Wisdom.
I was pondering that, because as I was leaving the grocery store, I was delayed by a teenager, hired by the store to wrangle carts. He loves to talk to me, at his employer’s expense, saying I’m the only customer who isn’t rude to him (i.e. beats a hasty retreat).
This is truly, and sadly, a kid who is dumber than a bag of hammers.
It became very clear, why. Today, my heart sank as he proudly declared himself to be a Pagan.
Fortunately, sub-zero temperatures forced him back inside (I was cozy with heat packs in my gloves).
Most of the morning, I grieved for this incredibly stupid kid. Not that he had a disability- but he didn’t have any light within him. He was operating on bagged hammer level. He couldn’t access Wisdom, he had no desire for Wisdom, that we are exhorted in the Bible to search, long and pray for. He likes to burn incense to his demonic helpers. (Shudder)
Yes, Christians can be that incredibly stupid and blind, too. I’m wondering, though, if chronically hammered Christians might be self-professed, cultural Christians, rather than genuine Christians.
I’m thinking the type who went to church all their lives, might even be a member of the clergy, even vehemently hammer others, yet never became born again. They worship, as they’ve been taught, but never in Spirit and Truth.
I know many people who profess to be Christians, but you can tell they are not, even though they think they are. They don’t have the Spark, the Light within.
They also vote often for demon-craps, as they find the platform to be as they feel happy with. It resonates with the culture, and they want to be popular, part of the power clique.
I know many of these. A pastor of a church, a deacon’s wife, a deacon, several people in my extended family… professing Christians, but without the Holy Spirit, and dumber than a bag of hammers. They can navigate within the world, but without discernment, and not understanding what is evil and sinful. These are not the ones who understand how wretched they are. These never collapse on their knees or face before God, needing His saving forgiveness. They are proud, they are arrogant, and they can justify abortion, and the demon-crap platform, because, hey, others want to “make” a woman have a baby conceived within her, and others do bad things so it’s ok to kill the inconvenient babies, imperfect (non-Arayan?) ones, the elderly who are burdens… Soylent Green is good, kill the surplus population for the good of the planet (aka their good).
Riot and do harm to others (MAGA hat-wearing kids?) because they don’t believe in group-think. Harass, silence, kill those who want to protect babies and the vulnerable, and justifying the demon-crap stance through some incoherent, garbled, illogical argument. (“Oh we can support abortion, because awful Donald Trump separates children from illegal border running parents”: a policy created by Obama, by the way, a policy that President Trump inherited from the demon-craps.)
Is the Republican Party perfect? Of course not. Is President Donald Trump perfect? Of course not.
Am I convinced President Donald Trump is standing on much higher moral ground than Killery Hinton, NYS Gov Andrew Cuomo, Pelosi, Feinstein, Chuckey Schumer, Anthony Weiner, etc…? Absolutely!
I didn’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016 (nor for a demon-crap), but I sure will vote for him in 2020 against any demon-crap. At the Wailing Wall, he prayed for Wisdom. Any Republican or Independent President who earnestly prays for that, has my prayers and support.
With apologies for my long post. As Blaise Pascal, Henry David Thoreau, and others have said; “I apologize for this long letter, I had not the time to make it shorter”.
Thank you for shining light into this very dark world, John! May your light never be overcome by evil which prefers the darkness. May God give you all the graces, gifts and blessings you need, each day. You already have His gift of Wisdom (considered folly by the world.) Thank you, John.
Love and prayers for you and your loved ones; and the vulnerable who need our help!
❤️🙏🏻❤️
Religion flat out makes us stupid, John. “Believing themselves wise they become fools.” Jesus never preached religion, because religion was too busy selling people favors at the temple. We like our pretend culture of life, it feels very good to proclaim how much we love babies, while completely ignoring the fact that those babies often get to grow up in meth afflicted homes, on the streets, subjected to poverty, sex trafficking, and enduring a damn near apathetic church. Do we care that we have lost more young people to drug over doses in just one year then we lost during the entirety of Vietnam war? Do we care that so many young people die from drive by shootings in Chicago alone, that we don’t even bother to report it? Do we care that we are now suffering from a epidemic that exceeds the 1920 flu epidemic, that so many young people have died from meth, heroin, and fentanyl, the life expectancy in the US has actually had to be lowered year after year?
We do not care. As a church we care far more about just virtue signaling our alleged love for babies and running about with our little bag of hammers as if just whacking people over the head is going to create some imaginary “culture of life” that makes all the churchians feel good.
You say “stop trying to justify evil by pointing to more evil,” to which I say, stop trying to separate one evil from another as if they are not related at all, as if we can just wipe the outside of our cup clean and proclaim in some kind of perverse plea bargain deal with God Himself, as if to say, “well at least I don’t condone killing babies or vote Democrat. ” If I can see through that crass deception, than surely God can too.
You seem a bit agitated today, IB.
Are you okay?…
I know this subject of emotion vs intellect is a place we’ve disagreed before. But putting that aside, I just want to check in with you on a heart level and make sure everything is good.
Are your comments coming from a place of love, joy, peace, etc?
(FYI. I said the same thing to John in a text message earlier. So don’t feel singled out.) 🙂
Love in Christ, -Amanda
I appreciate your kindness, Amanda. Am I agitated? Perhaps, but perhaps I’m supposed to be. Maybe contentment in the light of all the things I see around me is not really what I’m called to. Half the churchian world seems to believe they are hammers and the other half is impersonating a soggy plate of overcooked pasta.
I’d be lying if I said I understood exactly what you’re saying with that last line. :/
But just remember patience, faithfulness, self-control…
In my own experience, there’s a big difference between being “content” with the fallen state of the world and being AT PEACE with the role I’m supposed to play in it. In those moments (days, weeks) of unholy agitation, I need to ask God to refocus my vision. Actually, as cliche as it is, the serenity prayer is a great one. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” 🙂
I’m praying that for all of us right now.
I love how you write, brother!
It’s almost like you take words and turn them into a mirror. Almost like the Bible does. I’m praying that God gives you more wisdom and also the wisdom to have the courage to look closer at yourself in this word-mirror.