Another Sunday morning has come and gone, and the so-called good Christians of this country have concluded their weekly ritual with their families, content in knowing that in the eyes of society they are seen as "the good people of the world". They have done what's right: they have gone to church. They can go on with their day knowing that come Judgment Day, they will be seen with the most favorable of eyes by their Lord on high. They are church-going, Bible-reading, Lord-fearing, good Christians. Exemplary members of our society, they are. They went to church.
Sadly, far too many of these so-called "good people of the world" practice such a deviant, hypocritical form of Christianity once they exit those church doors that I question what kind of God they pray to, because it sure cannot be the same God I was brought up to believe in.
I refuse to believe that my God thinks that some of us are better than others and doesn't love ALL of His children equally. I refuse to believe that my God thinks that the color of our skin makes any difference and that how we should treat each other, what jobs we should get, and what, if any, 'breaks' in life we might get should be based on that skin color, or for that matter in what country we were born. I refuse to believe that my God would send to hell some of His children because they go to bed with someone of equal gender to theirs when God Himself made them this way. I refuse to believe that my God would approve of this never-ending infatuation with guns by the political right when one of the 10 commandments is 'Thou Shall Not Kill' and we all know that there is one and only one purpose to a gun.
I believe in a fair God. A color blind God. A God that is ashamed of the way in which His children justify this out of control love affair with guns. A God that punishes bigotry and prejudice. A God that expects His children to be honest and truthful and looks down on hypocrisy.
But no sooner do so many of these so-called Sunday morning, Bible-abiding "Christians" conclude their weekend march that they turn around and walk a path headed in such a different direction to where they claim to be coming from. How can so many members of the Christian right call themselves "Christians" and house so much hatred in their hearts towards anyone that does not think or look like they do? How can so many members of the Christian right be so self-righteous about Christianity and blatantly practice infidelity on their spouses - did they think their Sunday morning hypocritical march would make them exempt from the vow of fidelity? How can so many members of the Christian right stand on their Bible-beating soapboxes and turn a deaf ear of indifference towards anything other than their own needs and just not CARE? How can so many members of the Christian right call themselves "Christian" and then discriminate towards others on the basis of skin color or who they sleep with, as if that's any of their business, as if we aren't ALL children of God?
I guess those so-called "good" Christians can go on with their day thinking that come Judgment Day, they will be seen with the most favorable of eyes by their Lord on high. Maybe their Lord.
This is not to imply that the Christian left is in any way shape or form perfect, or that there is any level of impunity that shall be granted to it for their imperfect actions. However, a more boisterous, holier-than-thou, self-righteous group will never be found than the right. If they so exuberantly claim to be the examples of all that is correct, then it behooves them to practice what they preach instead of gathering every Sunday, distilling hypocrisy, coming out ever more inebriated than the weekend before, and being the poster children of bigotry, prejudice, hate, and all things non-Christian.
That's a totally different flavor of Christianity and a totally different God than that with which I would ever want to be associated. And boy am I ever proud of that. The last thing I would want is to be amidst the Sunday Morning Hypocrites.
The God that I believe in is far more merciful. The God I believe in loves ALL His children equally. The God I believe in doesn't stand for bigotry, hate, social indifference, discrimination or prejudice. He's patiently witnessing all of those that make that hypocritical Sunday morning march. He's watching.
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