The Manic Christian

How to trigger
1. Tell them to read the bible.
2. Tell them, "No you didn't read it, ACTUALLY read it!"
3. Tell them that reading their book is not prosecuting or bullying them.
4. Tell them about Romans 13.
5. Tell them any verses about welcoming foreigners.
6. Tell them any verse about forgiving other peoples sins.
7. Tell them any verse about something not prolife.
8. Tell them "he who is without sin shall cast the first stone.
9. Ask them to explicitly state their favorite bible verse, why, and what it means.
10. Tell them about how woke Jesus was and making fun of woke people is making fun of Jesus.
11. Tell them forgiving student debt for those who can't pay it back is essentially the same thing as Jesus dying on the cross because he took our debt over something we couldn't pay for.
12. Tell them just because you go to church doesn't make you more Christian.
13. Remind them that God knows what's in their hearts and trying to hide it doesn't work.
14. Remind them about the 10 commandments, especially about bearing false witness.
15. Remind them that many false prophets will come and swear they bring truth.
16. Tell them they need to learn humility.
17. Tell them condemning others as a judge only condemns their own self in the process.
18. Tell them its better to have compassion than to always be right.
19. Tell them they pray God will make the right decision no matter what they believe they want.
20. Remind them that faith without works is useless.

1/9/23

Today's lesson: Humility

It's been a very rough 2 days. My oldest pet tarantula that I have had since I turned 13 years old died unexpectedly Saturday night. I took it very poorly. I ended up drinking to the point where I drank myself to a .28 BAC.
For the lack of a better term, I had to wash the sheets, My wife had to help me up plenty of times back to bed, had to be woken up multiple times to where I just couldn't handle myself.

After having a little bit of time to get myself fixed up, I cooled off and issued the absolute largest of apologies to my mother and also my wife for my terrible reactions for everything that went into place. It hurt doing all of this, but I had to swallow my pride and be aware of this thing called...humility. I made a terrible choice and am still paying for it as of this typing out.

Yeah, I did a bunch of wholly boneheaded things in my life, and one thing I had a terrible job doing for many years is being humble in my mistakes and admit my wrongdoing. The catch is, it hurts to lose pride, but that's not entirely a bad thing to have that pain. After all, pride is one of the absolute hardest sins for christians to overcome. Absolutely no one likes to be called out as being wrong.

During a time where we have so much political indifference in the US and people absolutely insist that the stereotypical right have all of the answers to always pick God and the bible well over what other people say. Yeah, politics are just terrible these days. You get sucked into so many people that are usually more wrong than they are right, but they're not convinced by no amount of logic you can give someone that they have done anything right.

It eventually gets to the point where people will considerably dig their selves into an even deeper hole than they previously when they were called out to do right by their error. But how is it that so many Christians have no way of knowing they're wrong about certain things or overlook the fact that their own hard pressed beliefs are incorrect to the original ideas of "he who is without sin shall cast the first stone?"

I think if many christians could relearn what humility is and learn to humble yourself better, a lot less hate would be spewed around. I've acknowledged many times I'm not the perfect Christian, but I certainly know how I'm NOT supposed to be treating people. How would you want to teach others to hold your tongue better before spewing some hateful things?

The bible says to not tolerate or encourage lots of sinful behaviors, but it also said to love other sinners as Jesus/God has loved you. How do people get it so wrong and then can't apologizing for jumping the gun?

One passage I picked out of the internet with Proverbs are Proverbs 11:2 "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom." People can grow closer and learn from a lot from humility if people can just let their selfishness as well as one sided minds go for a minute. Another passage picked is James 4:10 says "Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you." Again, with learning to accept humility, God/Jesus can absolutely shower us with grace knowing we were able to say sorry.

I wish I could see Christians relearn humility and relearn to be humble. Christianity doesn't have to hurt, but I can say if it hurts to drop even an ounce of defense, there is something you need to apologize for. That is way easier said than done though. Regardless of ones religious views (or in those rare instances of no religious backgrounds) there is no free pass in the bible to treat those who sin against you like...well, crap.

If someone has done wrong to you and they realize that, doesn't that apology feel great? Well, they had to muster up the courage to be able to tell you they were sorry. What is preventing you from doing the same to another being when YOU have been wrong? There is nothing that states you will remain stupid if you are caught being wrong. It is far better to show you have learned from a mistake and try your best to do better than it would to just escape from being responsible.

God/Jesus consistently forgive us when we are wrong, why is it so hard to do that to your brothers and sisters in Christ?

If there is one thing I would like everyone to consider thinking about if you have read this post today. Don't pick what is right or wrong because of what the media says, or potentially even what a book or another being says. Pick right from wrong based on what your heart says. If you have an ounce of consciousness and grace in your heart, you'll know when you are potentially wrong about something. I know we are so much better than this. Let's get it right before it gets much worse.

If you are wanting to chime in and share you own personal experiences. Feel more than welcome to! If you have some ideas to share to teach people better, share those as well. Just remember to be civil in comments.

Today's song I am leaving is a classic in my eyes. This weeks song is Feed the Machine by RED. The lyrics can be taken in many different ways, but the fact that people keep hiding who they should be and act as self righteous

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