Yet Another Rant

I talk about this subject of religious offence a lot. Yet, everytime I read a comment concerning it, I become very opinionated. Feeling the need to level the playing field which no one will care about.

I stop by a certain web site once in a blue moon to check out new content submitted by it's members. I particularly like the composed music submissions. I noticed the site had a religious section for it's flash games/cartoons. It's caption was "we get alot of hate-mail from bible tumpers..." Something along those lines. Can't remember exactly how it was stated.

That got me thinking how the main stream seems to believe that Christians ought not to be so sensative. Everyone else can be sensative about different things - abortion, the war in Iraq, seperation of Church and State, gay and lesbian rights - and be down right fanatical about it. But we as Christians are not allowed to express our views to the world, though others express their views about Christians and Christianity quite openly.

Now, don't get me wrong. I understand personal restraint. I've played enough flash games and watched enough flash cartoons to know that ninty percent of the religious flash content is offensive. So, personally, I've decided to just refrain from viewing anything with even a hint of religion. I'm not sure that it still does, but even Adult Swim aired a religious clay-mation show that poked fun at religion quite offensively. I watched one episode and decided it wasn't for me. Thus, I stopped watching it. Incidently, that same methond could be applied to folks who want nothing to do with religion. If you know that a certain article, report, or printed/aired opinion is religious based, just don't read it. It's no more justified for a person to get offended by religious opinion and rant about it in public mediums than it is for a Christian to do the same because his/her Savior is being portrayed as a long-haired, idiot hippy. (hippie? how do you spell that anyway?)

Don't get me wrong. I, in no way, condone judgement and condemnation. You don't read anywhere in the Bible Jesus blasting the people about their sins. He loved them, helped them, he told them the truth about their sins in love, but never verbally abused them. No, it was the religious hypocrites that were blasted and accused of being vipers and whited sepulchres. I am ashamed to say I was numbered amongst those vipers, once upon a time.

Alow me to take this time to congratulate Tim Buckley on an unbias viewpoint of any given subject. At least, it seems that way from all of his posts that I've read. His opinions seem to be genuinely his own, which seems to set a liberal path apart from the main stream. I might have him figured completely wrong, but I'd say that he is an independent liberal. Not to mention he's quite talented at his trade. Of course, I'm now tempted to ramble on about my favorite web comics. But that would be far from my subject.

What was I talkin' about? ...Oh, yeah.
So the moral of the story is this. We ought not label eachother because of differences of opinions or lifestyles. I leave on this note:
An evangelist who preached revival for our church one week shared with us the comment an older man made to him when he saw he prayed over his meal. The older man said "if Christians can come together on the ninty percent of the Bible they agree on instead of arguing over the ten percent they don't agree on, we could absolutely turn this country around." Allow me to take that a step further. If We The People would come together on the ten percent that we agree on instead of bitting eachother's head off over the ninty percent we disagree on (I'm guilty, too) this country would know the level of botherly love that's been long forgotten.

P.S. - Sorry. No time to spell check.