Monday, I demonstrated how the affects of American culture can be found even in a Siberian traffic accident. Tuesday at how Christianity has gone from the Church Universal to the Church Individual. All that remains of Christianity today is what is inside of you if you are an American believer. Sure there are a few Christian churches left around, but we can write off the denominations due to their loss of credibility through politics and lost witness. Yes, I know there are some awesome pastors out there, some awesome churches, but corporately we are not seeing much of an impact on culture. Wednesday I discussed my observation at the major push by the American government to change Christianity through popular opinion and court rulings, first stripping the Church of it tenants of faith and then forcing acceptance of court rulings.
As mentioned on Tuesday, the future of the Christian Church will be to resort to collectivism, to regather back into a Church Universal. Unfortunately, two forces will work against that success. First is the question of what to do with the Roman Catholic Church. No, it is not Christian, there are Christians whom are members but the denomination is not. You would have to strip large portions of the church in order to make it so and then it would be financially un-maintainable (hint: the highly profitable and popular Cult of Mary). Second, you have the American lack of faith to deal with. Yes, there are American Christians, but the church which would gather would not represent them, it would represent the American way of life, is perhaps better expressed as death. Either of these will destroy any God-ly intent through their financial power, demands for power and constant push for what destroyed them in the first place.
What would that new religion look like?
- Equality of the sexes, where woman's responsibility is the same as man's.
- Acceptance of ungodliness by youth and even encouraged through sexual roles.
- Marriage is optional, right for some but not all.
- Divorce is something which happens to the best of us.
- Expressions of sexuality are not to be condemned.
- Acceptance of abortion.
- Acceptance of euthanasia.
- The equality of woman guarantees a priesthood for women.
- Sexuality is now defined by choice, not gender, nor roles.
Lost is the understanding that there is a God whom demands a level of behavior, which increases with your position within the Church. Lost is any witness for whom God is. Lost is every believers freedom within the faith, save for the eldership.
Gained is an understanding that Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad or your shiny rock are all equal for you, if it fills that void built into all of us.
So we will have a brotherhood of man, bent upon pacifying ourselves, doing as we please - because we believe it to be right, and as long as we do not run afoul the government - they will be fully supportive. Our future generation is already being gently rocked straight into disbelief and I do not see very many out there willing to take a stand and say, "I think we have a problem here folks....." You can't when you are being kept relatively fat and happy. It is through choice or discontent when you are first able to see something is wrong.
So, what are WE to do?
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