Jesus Sacred
The Hijacking of Jesus ChristSomething has gone genuinely wrong. As a young boy I was raised in the rigorous religious world of Pentecostal Christianity - fundamental, evangelical and very, very punitive. When I left home after high school to join the Marines I gladly left that world behind me. So deeply resentful was I, it was almost 30 years before I could fetch myself to entertain the possibleness that religion of any kind, and Christianity in particular, was a strength for good rather than a cleverly orchestrated guilt feelings trip. In recent years, I've come to re-examine my early rejections of Christianity. While I don't have a unified conception of what the unfeigned story of Christ is, I am now convinced that there is an awful transformative power available through the teachings of Christ. I'm also convinced that the totality of what he brought to mankind can not perhaps be captured in the 80 or so books that make up the innovative day Bible. And I am completely sure that contemporary Christian theology is exclusively missing the point. In my formal studies of philosophy, I've learned that the deep and complex inquiries of the ancient Greek thinkers were to a great extent influenced by, and concentered on, discovering the essence of God and understanding what the Divine would want us to do with our lives. In nearly all of the early philosophers' writings, some of whom pre-dated Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, there was the question "What is our purpose?". They wondered: what is the perfect, natural expression of man, and how does one come to recognise the will of the prime strength of the cosmos? Whatever position one might take in sorting out the origins and intents of early Christianity, one thing is crystal clear to me. Something has actually gotten screwed up along the path from then until now. My understanding of Jesus Christ is that he was a compassionate revolutionary and a sacred man of the humans who loved all. He worked tirelessly for peace and justice, healed those who necessitated it irrespective of their race or professions, hung out with mutual folk, and fed the masses, all without ever gathering a salary or building a temple. He delivered his message in the streets, on mountaintops and by the rivers. He was a radical dude who rejected the high-minded foundations of "religious" teaching, and broke the social-political rules of his time. And somehow, that spiritual lighthouse has evolved into a multi-billion dollar international industry managed and marketed by men in imagination clothes who go to work in magnificent palaces (cleverly labeled as churches), and gather billions of dollars to do "god's work". Talk in regards to taking God's name in vain! Uh, pardon me, folks, but from what I may tell, God's work happens in the heart, one-on-one. I think it's worth pointing out that the only time the Christian Bible teaches us that Jesus genuinely lost his temper was when he ransacked the "money changers" (priests) who had taken up business in the House of God. He had no problem with prostitutes, thieves and beggars, but that priest-thing actually pissed him off! Under the guardianship of "holy" men, Jesus has evolved into a jealous, self-serving deity that demands obeisance or dishes out horrid suffering and an interest in dabbling in the politics of a single little teeny speck of a planet called Earth. He hand-picks His favorites and gives them special privileges and protection. He condemns sure types of people to eternal damnation through no fault of their own (Jews, gays, etc.), instructs his goons to gather cash FROM the poor and invest it in real estate and the stock market, and gives His benediction to the slaughter of millions of persons in absurd wars and violence. Ah yes, and The Almighty shows his displeasure with the children of his creation with such Divine interventions as AIDS, tsunamis and the tragic bombing of the World Trade Center. Sounds like the villain in an X-Men movie! I will have to be missing something. Maybe I'm just not one of the privileged few who have gained Divine Inspiration. How did a system of belief of love and service to the masses become a doctrine of judgmental criticisms, self-righteous political action committees, and prejudice? Well, I may not be the most enlightened guy in the Christian world, but I may tell you this much. I sure don't want to be standing next to any of the charlatans the next time Jesus loses his temper. It could be genuinely ugly!
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when is it the feast of our lady of the sacred heart of Jesus? no the immaculate heart of mary please.. I want to recognise the feast this devotion but it seems to be unknown in English.. I don't find in internet not one thing much in regards to it. According to Wiki: "In 1969, Pope Paul VI moved the celebration of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to the day (Saturday) without delay after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This means in exercise that it is now held on the day before the third Sunday after Pentecost." And Susanna, that was lame, even for you. If "Where's that in the BY-buhl?" is the only thing you may come up with to insult Catholics, you might as well give it up. Edit: According to the Australian web page of Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the Feast of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is celebrated on the last Saturday in May. |
