Saturday, April 25, 2009

Why are Christians so judgmental?


It's been some time since I was at this blog. I think I forgot about it. I am back and I have a few things on my mind. You see I have read all the comments that some people have been leaving me and I want to thank all of you for commenting on my blog. I refuse to get into an argument over this subject but I will discuss it with whomever wants to join in. As you can see the title of this post is pointing fingers at the christian faith and I apologize for that. In my heart I do not judge the Christians however questioning them is more what I am doing here. I was a christian for many, many years and none of you can fool me because I used to do it too. My parents did it and still are because that is how they were raised. Reading the comments on what I wrote about God & peoples view of God, the world and the truth there was a very distinct smell of judgment in the comments that speak loud & clear. "We are Right & You are Wrong." If you don't think so then let me quote some of the lines they wrote.

  • "Look back at your life and think about all the mistakes that you made"
  • "The path you have chosen isn't an easy one"
  • "Keep searching for the truth, friend."
  • "See the last blog I just posted on my page. I just addressed this subject of Jesus being God."
  • "Being connected with God is possible, not by rules, laws, rituals, traditions, but by Jesus."
  • "To me it is simple, god is neither male nor female but it is proper to refer to almighty god as male since he created male and female and placed the male as head over the female just as he is head over all the universe. Referring to him in the masculine simply is recognizing him as supreme over all his creation."
  • "To say that God is in all things as some kind of symbionic substance with creation reduces him to something less than God. "
  • "Your premise about God is very much a New Age idea. It is not rooted in God's revealed truth or even logic. "

There is more but I'll stop right there and move on. First I want to address the one who talks about my premises of God. In logic, an argument is a set of one or more declarative propositions known as the premises. Just to clear it up that I was not arguing at all. I was only speaking the truth about God as it could only be. If we say that God is spirit and completely separate from us then we shove God into a box close the lid and move on. Now we are reducing God to something that we as humans can grasp with our finite minds, but if you think of the universe and the vast unending spacetime continuum and the mind starts to move out of the box realizing that God is much more than that. God IS in everything we see, touch, feel, smell, taste and hear. I think we can all agree that without God none of that would be possible. God is the spirit, the father, the mother, the mountains, the flowers, the water, the planets, the brother, sister, husband, wife, and friend. Namaste is a common spoken greeting or salutation in the Indian subcontinent.
Derived from Hinduism and Buddhism, and in India it has multi-religious or else common usage where it may simply mean "I bow to that inherent in you" ("that" here refers to divinity, or that which is divine'). New Age or not, it is what it is. (to be continued)

Namaste

1 comments:

Karla said...

My post on the Ethical Valuation of Truth responds well to what you write here. Pluralism doesn't avoid making a truth claim that excludes.

I take it from this post you believe in God as father of creation, just not the God of the Bible?