Part of me can’t believe this image exists (ht Matt Stone), but part of me knows this is the state of “Christianity” in America — American-ianity.
The peasant carpenter Messiah of the Bible has been co-opted by a middle-class religious mechanism. The rebel-Jesus has been neutered and propped up as a chaplain/endorser/cheer-leader for a nationalist agenda that is at cross-purposes with the kingdom he came to initiate.
Troubling. Disgusting. Idolatrous.
One more descriptive word while I’m at it: convicting. How have I (re)created Jesus in my own image, transposed him into my agendas, and otherwise stuffed him into my “box” until he’s barely recognizable?
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Look at the people in Jesus’ lower left hand. It makes my stomach turn. I have recently been disturbed because the American Christian Church has silenced me. I can not risk speaking out because I will lose a majority of my support. Christianity in the country has become equal to a political party. If I do not belong to that political party- I am not a Christian…therefore would make a rather sorry missionary. Blech. And I probabyl should not even post this (it would help if you would stop writing things that are so pertinent to my present ponderings) Haha.