This isn't the Christ I believe
But it's a Christ I've heard many people testify of, and fervently worship.
A political group called "The Family" is "the oldest Christian conservative organization in Washington and it goes back seventy years. And the founder believed that god gave him a new revelation saying that Christianity had gotten it wrong for two thousand years and that what most people think of as Christianity, as being about, you know, helping the weak and the poor and the meek and the down and out, he believes god came to him one night in April in 1935 and said what Christianity should really be about is building more power for the already powerful." -from Crooks and Liars
Though this is an extreme, I seem to constantly battle this idea among Mormons that poor people are lazy and get what they deserve, and that we shouldn't help them, and that capitalism is equivalent to the gospel.
These sound ideas of respected business and hard-work are nothing more than the resurrection of the cult of Mammon, proclaimed and adored in books such as The Secret and Think Big.
A political group called "The Family" is "the oldest Christian conservative organization in Washington and it goes back seventy years. And the founder believed that god gave him a new revelation saying that Christianity had gotten it wrong for two thousand years and that what most people think of as Christianity, as being about, you know, helping the weak and the poor and the meek and the down and out, he believes god came to him one night in April in 1935 and said what Christianity should really be about is building more power for the already powerful." -from Crooks and Liars
Though this is an extreme, I seem to constantly battle this idea among Mormons that poor people are lazy and get what they deserve, and that we shouldn't help them, and that capitalism is equivalent to the gospel.
These sound ideas of respected business and hard-work are nothing more than the resurrection of the cult of Mammon, proclaimed and adored in books such as The Secret and Think Big.
Secret combinations baby!
ReplyDeleteyou don't believe in the black jesus do you? :) Sorry...that comment was not helpful at all.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the red-headed blue-eyed version.
ReplyDeleteI wrote that in a sarcastic voice.
Who knows what Jews looked like in AD Zero? They could have been dark or olive skinned. Why not?
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point. There might be historical references to how they looked. But there can also be fluctuations in skin, hair, and eye tone.
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that Abraham had blue eyes.