The religious community is constantly complaining about how much they
are being persecuted for their faith. One large religious organization
leader told his congregation that persecution of Christians and their
beliefs has increased more in the last 3 years than at anytime in history.
He is now planning to take his complaint about religious unfairness
and extreme persecution before the Senate and Congress.
My question to many of these religious groups is: "Aren't you the
one's who are forever preaching 'blessed are thou when thou are persecuted
because thou are being persecuted for righteousness sake'?" "Aren't
you the one's who literally say that 'we ought to turn the other cheek'?"
"Aren't you the one's who tell people how Jesus said: "In
the world you shall suffer persecution, but be of good cheer for I have
overcome the world?" If this is what you affirm and believe, then
why are you complaining to government
that you want a stop to religious persecution in America?
Aren't you the one's that have pretty much brought all of this upon
yourselves? How can you expect not to be persecuted when you continue
to preach to the world that they are going to be 'Left Behind,' while
you are going to be taken away into heaven? The question that the religious
community should be asking is: "Who is persecuting who?" If
anyone is being the recipient of persecution it has to be none other
than those people who religion condemns with hell fire and brimstone.
People are beginning to see the bias injustice of religion and they
have had it, and aren't taking it anymore.
As long as organized religion continues to condemn to hell those who
don't believe like them, nor agree with them, people will continue to
resist by using fire with fire and an eye for an eye. If religion feels
that persecution against them has increased, they have no one to blame
but themselves. I believe that if anyone has ever suffered and is suffering
persecution it has to be none other than those who religion continues
to judge, condemn, reject, and accuse of being children of the devil.
I am thinking of putting a rebuttal to the men who wrote the sensationalistic
series of "Left Behind" and calling it "Right Behind."
Because, if there were such a thing as a 'rapture,' which I see more
like a 'rupture,' I believe that those of us who are perceived as being
"Left Behind" will be "Right Behind" those who believe
and think that they have left without us. Let me remind them of their
own religious quote: "The last shall be first and the first shall
be last". So when it comes to the question or complaint about religious
groups being persecuted more than anyone else, let's ask ourselves "Who
Is Persecuting Who?"
Grace N Peace
Eddie