Monastic Mumblings, a Friar's Journey: Sea of Scarlet: "So, the question for me, is how are Evangelicals using their new found power? Is the Church more spiritual, holy, living a vibrant Gospel or have we failed? Has the Church been seduced by Wealth and Power, and consumed with Lust for more? Do politicians that are supported by the Christian Right live open, holy lives? Sadly I think not. I see too many politicians living dark lives, full of hidden sins, while they openly proclaim faith in Jesus and preach against the very things they are doing. (See list below) What I find amazing is that Conservative Christians shrilly complain at 'secular leftists' but slyly wink at sinners in their own ranks, and trade spouses at a rate that makes most of those same 'secular leftists' blush with shame. The hypocrisy of their lives, lived in front of their children is rasing up a generation of people that want nothing to do with organized Church of any kind!
I would say that called Christian America has become such a farce and a hypocrisy to their children and the entire world, I wonder why any one would want to become a follower of Jesus!
Somehow something has changed in American Christianity. We no longer believe in the gentle Shepherd from Nazareth, we have put our faith in politics, guns and bombs. We have lost our way on a sea of scarlet sin, and have no one to blame but ourselves. How, and in what way will any amout of Law or Politics roll back the effects of the Fall?"
Well said, Monk in Training. I would add to this the fact that the itinerant rebel Jesus, in some inexplicable way, has become the icon of choice for wealth suburbanites.
American culture may be sorely in need of help. There is little doubt that our political system is sick; our popular culture is obsessed with sex, and worse, filled with bad art. But it is our churches that seem to be the most sick. Becoming more and more Republican and Americanized, Jesus is becoming less the Shepard and more the Militant overlord.
I like the shepard.
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