You know – I wrote a blog a few months ago, maybe even longer, about
double standards and loving your neighbour as yourself, etc. Actually as I think about it, it may have
been a series of blogs.
As of late - I have seen a lot
of attacks towards different religions from people. These attacks may have been due to the
marriage equality law change in the USA, or perhaps even the Caitlyn Jenner(formerly
Bruce Jenner) discussion.
Christians are generally attacked or “judged” for their beliefs. If you call yourself a Christian but have
different beliefs on certain topics you can still be judged for those certain
topics even if you disagree with them.
So – I may be judged for a homosexual topic, or a sex-change topic, and
you may not even know where I stand on these individual topics, but because I’m
a Christian I somehow deserve to be judged like everyone else.
The problem is not that you hate Christianity as a whole. The problem is you hate the fundamentalists,
or you hate the people who don’t really practice their religion or study their
religion and they know enough verses here and there to be able to say “homosexuality
is wrong” or whatever other topic may come up, or you hate the extremists.
Then again – you’re probably part of a group that has extremists. If you’re a feminist – there are extremists
within feminism who go so far down that path that they believe that women should
have more rights than men. Yet every
time I talk to a woman who says she’s a feminist, she says that she’s for equal
rights.
The point is a majority of people who know about Christianity but aren’t
Christians, are quick to show that it says many things in the old testament
about things you can and can’t do. The
problem is many people don’t understand the why.
The whole purpose of this is everybody tells Christians to leave their
ideology at home, yet every other group has a right to express their ideology.
If someone else comes up to me and tells me that they have a problem
with Christianity and point to an Old Testament verse – I’m going to flat out
tell you that your problem is not with Christianity but with Judaism. While Christianity would be better called
Judeo-Christianity, if I live under the New Covenant/Testament – why does
everyone judge Christianity based on the past.
If I’ve been given a nickel for all the times I’ve been told “don’t
judge” since becoming a Christian, I’d be a rich man. The issue is I’m only expressing an
idea. At the same time, if I can count
the number of times I’ve been judged since becoming a Christian, I’d be even
richer.
My point here is this: don’t
judge an entire group because of certain “sects” within the group. Some people say that Christianity is against
feminism – yet the Bible teaches love your neighbour as yourself. Some people say Christianity is against
homosexuality. Well technically
Christianity is against sex outside of marriage period. This is an ideology. Some people agree with it while others
disagree. If you disagree, then don’t
become a Christian, or find a sect of Christianity that does agree with what
you want.
You want equal rights? Don’t
judge me and I won’t judge you. You want
equal rights? Judge me and I’ll judge
you. You want equal rights? Disrespect me, and I’ll disrespect you. You want equal rights? Respect me and I’ll respect you.
