Tragic Opportunity

I wrote this piece a few years ago. I'll explain why I'm posting it here again at the bottom.

Good Chrisians

The other day I saw a church van with a few bumper stickers on the back. I won't say here to which church it belonged. Anyway, the first sticker I noticed was an anti-Obama sticker. The sticker read "Obama can keep the change. We'll keep our money, guns, and freedom." Now even though I voted for Obama I had to laugh because I can appreciate good humor. But then I started thinking, these are supposed to be good Christian people and what are their top priorities? First is money, which is supposed to be the root of all evil. Second is guns, which are weapons used for violence and murder. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against money or guns, especially money. But are these really the top priorities of good Christian people? The last item listed was freedom. Well there is certainly nothing wrong with freedom. I think we can all agree that we should have freedom to make choices and live our lives as we please. Right? Then I seen the other stickers which were an anti-ProChoice sticker and an anti-Gay sticker. I guess the people of this church only care about freedom for themselves and not other people. Maybe these "Good Christians" should review their priorities.

Since the shootings in Newtown, CT this week, I have changed my position about guns. What needs to be done? I don’t know, but the time has come for something to be done.

R.I.P. John Lennon

          Yesterday was the anniversary of John Lennon’s death.  So when I got home from work I posted Lennon’s “Imagine” video on Facebook.  The only status I posted with the video was the dates of his birth and death.  Within minutes one of my brothers posted a video called “Genius - the Movie” that has a picture of Lennon on it.  This brother happens to be a devout SuperChrisian and he never post anything on Facebook without it being about religion.  I was curious so I watched the movie.  Of course it turned out to be just another Christian propaganda film.  What did it have to do with John Lennon you ask?  Well it attempted to explain that the song “Imagine” was not an Atheist theme song but in fact a Christian theme song.  We all know the lyrics - No hell below us, above us only sky.  They claim that when someone hears these lyrics they can’t “imagine” this scenario so therefore heaven and hell must exist.  Crazy, right?  Christians will do anything to twist and pervert the truth to match their narrow minded view.