'ello, poppets!
Today is Memorial Day Monday. It was created after the Civil War, but was called Memorial Day after Word War I.
I was suppose to go down to Helen's (like my grandmother) and have a barbecue, but sadly she is sick, and we're going to do it another time.
Stephen (my sister Rachel's boyfriend) is up for today. His family was suppose to come up too, but since the barbecue was canceled, they can't.
A friend of mine on facebook said he isn't proud of American. He thinks we should go back 100 or even 50 years ago! But there were many problems back then too.
For one thing, black people had very little rights, and were harassed by the strong Klu Klux Kan.
Women could not vote, work, or even divorce their abusive husbands who would do awful things to them. Women were always blamed, and had to remain faithful to their husbands, even if their husbands weren't.
The lists goes on, but I want to focus on these two things.....
A lot of the stuff that happened the church let people get away with. There was no compassion, no love, but strict laws. The church was very similar to the Pharisees were in the New Testament. It's good to follow God's law, but they based going to Heaven on that very thing. They didn't understand Jesus was the promised Messiah who came to die for us.
I don't like the fact when Christian skip most parts of the Bible. May people focus on the strict rules of the Old Testament, but think about Jesus who broke a lot of the laws the Pharisees stuck to. He ate with tax collectors and prostitutes. He cleansed exiled people with leprosy, and in John 8: 1-11:
"But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before and said to Jesus, "Teacher, woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis of accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no condemn you?" "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
We could of have done that back then. Helped women out being abused or wanting to change. But we didn't. We let husbands hurt their wives in many ways, and that was wrong. Why though? The Bible clearly says we need to help people in need. I mean if we try to live like Christ, then why not forgive the woman caught in adultery? What about the man? Where was he?
How come the church back then ignored it? Why claim one thing, and totally ignore the other things......
As Edmund Burke once said:
"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing"
To be continued......
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