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You may argue that religious leaders’ actions don’t invalidate belief, but that’s when the belief itself is right. There seems to be nothing of the Christian faith geared towards restoration of the populace. The emptiness of the message becomes so much apparent and appalling when they start this ‘positive thinking’ or ‘get rich or die trying’ thing. So when these scams now come in to form an evil conundrum, ripping off the poor and seemingly unintelligent, it’s time to say no. When you talk about thieves in high places, remember the thieves you placed in ‘godly’ places too.
Tupac Shakur, painted a very lucid picture of this situation in an interview with Vibe. He said: “I think some cool motha****a sat down a long time ago and said, “Let’s figure out a way that we can control motha****as.” And that’s what they came up with, it’s the Bible. ‘Cause if God wrote the Bible, I’m sure there would’ve been a revised copy by now, you know what I mean? Because a lot of shit has changed, and I’ve been looking for this revised copy, and I don’t see it. I still see that same old copy that they’ve had from then…Trust me, this is what’s real. And all that other shit is to control you. If the churches took half the money that they was making and gave it back to the community, we’d be alright. If they take half of the buildings that they use to praise God and gave it to motha****as who need God, we’d be alright. We’d be alright! Have you seen some of these goddamn churches lately? There’s one that take up the whole block in New York. There’s homeless people out here, why ain’t God letting them stay there? Why these niggas got gold ceilings and shit? Why God need gold ceilings to talk to me? Why do God need colored windows to talk to me? Why God can’t come where I’m at, where he sent me? If God wanted to talk to me in the pretty spot like that, why the hell he sent me here then, you know what I mean? That makes ghetto kids not believe in God…”
Jesus once went into a temple and threw out currency traders and salespeople. Somehow, he sounds too good to be christian.
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HEllo
I did like to leave a quick comment, i do understand your plight about the life styles of Pastors and how the Faith (Christianity) has been abused. But am here to let you know Christianity is much better than you may think. The God you speak about is a much loving God. Believe me, He doesn’t need Gold ceilings or Colored windows to talk to you or anyone. He loves you and me just the way we are, be it dirty, in a Ghetto etc. He loves you. The fact that Pastors live this way and never care about those you are talking about does not mean that is the way God also act. They may claim they represent God but, the question i will ask you is this: Has God ever spoken to you that any of them represent Him? The Bible is real and its the Book of Truth, the bible even told us that by looking at the life styles of people, you can decifer if they are for Him or not (i.e. by their fruits you will know them – Mathew 7:16). I really do understand you feelings regarding the life styles the so called men of God. I am a Christian and proud of my faith, yet i am not happy either when i look at these Pastors because their life styles alone as caused a lot of Poeple to curse God.
If you will like me to discuss even more of who Jesus is, i will be glad to do so. I can show you several scriptures that shows you how amazingly humble Jesus is. I called it amazing because i marvel at the way Jesus lived His life even when he had the chance to ride the best horses, all he called for was a mere donkey. I pray Jesus will reveal Himself to you to know His loving kindness and tender mercies.
Shalom!
Yinka