Tom Branch - Roads of Faith

OK this boils my blood every time I hear this and see things like this. In Smyrna, a town southeast of Nashville, a small town I used to live in, I mean country town. There was a protest from a Church in Kansas. If I read it correctly they came from Kansas just to protest at two soldiers funerals.

They are protesting that the war is God's way of being angry that we harbor gays in the military. SO they were carrying the "God hates fags" signs etc. Ok now in faith I take it that getting angry is not a good thing and wanting something to occur....I want to shout. I want to hog tie up each and everyone of them that claim to be christian doing this....yes hogtie, gag, bound, them all put them in a room full of the most homosexual of them all and preach to them. Yes give them god back on the terms of the ones they hate so much. OK now that I said that I have to work on that....no need for anger of this magnitude...or is there?

First off they are doing this at the funerals. You do not do this at a funeral!!! Let the family greif. A human died. The ones that died were not gay, at least no mention if they were or not. They just wanted to protest at soldiers funerals. They said when the righeous hear this they will rejoice! What a load of ............(insert many expletives here).

Ok let's see the issues at hand here. Homosexuality, ok this seems to be a heated debate at times. Yet we cannot hate them. Love thy neighbor right? Ok love is patient, love is kind, love keeps no record of wrong. So if my neighbor is gay am I supposed to shout God hates him and say he is going to hell? No. Even the bible speaks of talking seasoned with salt. So be nice to them, love them as I would love a straight person.

Ok now there are many groups out there that dis-like these christian movements. This does not look good for anybody. What angers me more? A non-believer making all sorts of statements contrary to the faith or Christians doing wrong and not what they preach? Or taking this attitude that we are right and they are wrong. Why is this? There si so much separation among the Christian faith alone how can anyone know that this is the right choice? There is one bible but thousands of flavors of Christianity. I hate the far-wingers, far left and far right. The extremes are causing troubles, the regular ones and the middle of the road work together and things tend to get done a wee bit better.

It just boiled my blood to see far-right-wing Christians come up and preach something wrong...even if they were not wrong they did it such poor timing in the worst of times. To be honest I wished there were straight bashing by the gays they speak out against. I am just talking and venting right now. I do not wish this to happen. I just see Christians behaving very contrary to the teachings of Christ and it irks me. There is more logic to this I know but...I dunno.

Tolerance is one thing we do not seem to be teaching these days. It goes too far or too little, not very often is it right in the middle. As in we have NO tolerance for gays (the people I speak of), to we have tolerance for gays (it is an acceptable lifestyle and its perfectly ok to be gay), yet we never seem to have a middle ground where as it's ok that you are gay but it does say here in the bible, it is god's will for you to...but still say ya know what yes you are gay, that's fine and I am ok with that, god may not be ok with that but you are human like I am, guess what you are gay and I am not but ya know what, we are not much different, why you ask because we are BOTH sinners.

SO I guess that gays are on our team, we are on theres as well as murderess, rapists, thieves, liars, presidents, mothers, daughters, judges, prisoners, the pope, martin luther king jr., ok I might be going over board with the names but we are all sinners that fall short of the glory of God.

The protesting Christians that bear the "God hates fags" signs are on the same side as those who the persecute. We all are. This is where I should pray for them. This is hard to do as I want them to know how angry this makes me. Nothing righteous about this. Even at that say that they died because god is angry about the gays in the military sounds very judgmental on God himself doesn't it? We don ot know God well enough to claim as such do we? God also loves.

The middle ground os going away, far left and far right takes over. Christians battling other Christians, pride runs wild everywhere no one is safe from it anymore. There are many out there who do not like Christians, I think I am more ok with them than they who are these Christians getting all up on a high horse.

You know the best thing I like about Christ. While he was here, well other than the sacrifice he made, but that is so deep it may take a long time to understand it completely, but the fact he was not exalted, he was low, he talked to the sinners, he talked to the ones other regarded as bad, he was down in the muck with the rest of us. He was peaceful, he was kind, he was straight forward too. More so than the miracles he performed, this is what I love about him the most. He was man while man exalted themselves above what they were.

Thinking about this has taken away much of the anger I had while writing this entry. Yes it may be wrong of them to protest in this manner as being homosexual is just as wrong as fighting in a war, and just as wrong when I cuss and swear. So I cannot really be mad at them. I can only pray.

I would love to have a time machine and go back in time to see Christ for one day walking the earth. Yet I guess I will have to wait a few more years or however long and make preparations to see him on the other side of the clouds.

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