Forgive my poor mood; today is the National Day of Prayer. It sounds like a great idea I suppose, but the results can be horrific. Today is, for all intents and purposes a day to praise the state, to pray for the health of the state, show off your spirituality by publicly praying flowing prayers filled with vain words. I’m still so disturbed by it that I don’t really want to finish writing about it, or really showing it. Worst part is, I’m complaining about myself from a few years back.

Those flags must make Jesus very, very happy.

Glory to the state! Pray for those overseas that kill families and children in the name of our great imperialism! God Bless our nation of death!

Praise God for Death, Doom and the Great US of A!

More flags! Pray for the health of the state! Glory to state!

And lets not forget to use a supposed day of prayer as an opportunity to knock political enemies. Of all the things to criticize Obama for: killing, stealing, etc., it would seem not showing up for a showy prayer would not be very high on the list. But still:

Whoa. Seriously? What's disgusting is judging people's Christianity based on how public their prayers are.

Some Christians have an knack for missing the point of some things. For instance, how Generations with Vision views the Hunger Games. Kevin Swanson takes offense to everything in the movie, and particularly complains about how “there were two audiences watching the game, and everybody on both sides of the screen was rooting for the winner.”

Um, yes Kevin, that’s the point. The point was to act like a mirror. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work with fiction, with people instead choosing to complain about how horrible reality is, and try to stay in their fantasy world by shunning works like Hunger Games, 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and others.

Oh, and not to mention, he uses this to rant about libertarianism in his sermon (because, love one another, and the golden rule are so evil apparently). How can people be so deceived?

After James Dobson endorsed Rick Santorum, I found this in my Bible reading:

And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

With whom James Dobson has committed fornication, and has been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Good going James Dobson, You got a mention in Revelation!

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/dobson-endorses-santorum-for-gop-nomination/

For I was an hungred, and ye told me to get a job: I was thirsty, and ye told me I was lazy: I was a stranger, and ye left me in the cold: Naked, and ye stoned me: I was sick, and ye condemned me: I was in prison, and ye told me I should get right with God.

Unfortunately, most can’t make the tie-in between the original statements made by Christ, and modern issues. While the original verses are indeed treated as still relevant, they are still mostly ignored by the general Church-going population. And God does take these very personally. All these things, He states, were done to Him, even though they were done to others. Because, what you do to God’s children, He takes as a direct attack on Himself. But, a little modernization helps to really drill the idea in, because, these things have been done to me directly, and to friends, by the very people that repeat the original verses on Sundays.

When we drive by a homeless person, and should “get a job!” we are shouting that to Christ. I am reminded of the TV “christian” response to the Occupy protests being “get a job.” We are told they are lazy. They are beaten, placed in tiny cages, and left out in the cold. They are condemned. And in prison, they are “bad people.” No compassion for the oppressed that we sing of on Sundays, “Come unto Me.” No love for our neighbor. And those that feed the hungry are thrown in cages also. We do these things in Christ’s name sometimes! And these are things God takes very, very personally. These are things He counts as done unto Him.

How our world would be different if a consistent application was made!

“We do not acknowledge allegiance to any human government. We recognize but one King and Lawgiver, one Judge and Ruler of mankind. Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity only as we love all other lands. The interests and rights of American citizens are not dearer to us than those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism to revenge any national insult or injury…”

Tolstoy, Leo (Quoting the Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by Peace Convention); Garnett, Constance (2011-07-12). The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Kindle Locations 91-94). Kindle Edition.

This is not a quote from the Bible, but it’s still Biblical. Jesus never fought for the cause of Rome, or even the cause of Isreal. He came down that “that the world may be saved through him” (YLT-John 3:17). What are we doing as Christians seeking vengeance against a people? We should be reaching out to them, and not killing them. How is it possible to juggle the idea of winning souls and killing them at the same time? It’s not.

It is unfortunate that 9/11 has become the excuse for nationalism and blood thirsty flag worship in this nation. Instead of using the dead to encourage more death, we should be doing the opposite.