Show me a devout Christian, an extremist, and then ask him to sacrifice himself in the name of his Lord and see what happens. We all know that extremist Muslims have no problems with that request. In fact, if you had a crowd of extreme Muslims and Christians gathered and asked those willing to sacrifice their lives for their respective gods to form two queues - Christians here and Muslims over there - I would bet good money that there would only be one queue, the one over there.
Convenient christianity
Many people who claim to be Christians often come off as applying their faith only when it's convenient. There are some people who call themselves Christians who are the worst people you can find between Monday and Friday but they never miss church on Sundays or Saturdays. The same can be said of some of those who attend church three, four times a week. Every night they're at church worshipping and praying with much vigour, but as soon as the service is over are equally vigorous in their application of the seven deadly sins.
I had friends in high school who attended church on Saturdays - they were Adventists - with the sole intention of getting into the skirts of willing church sisters. I wish I could tell you that they were not successful. I wish I could tell you that they were only marginally successful. But, apparently there were quite a number of willing sisters. The thing is, the most willing ones were the ones who seemed most devout.
They were the girls who you always saw going to service armed with their Bibles and prayer books. They were the ones who never creamed their hair, never wore nail polish, and who wore the ugliest clothes and shoes you ever saw. Their clothes were so ugly I used to believe that there had to be a special store that sold only church wear.
The other thing is, whenever they were doing their 'thing', it would never be on a Friday night or Saturday. In other words sex could be scheduled any time between Sunday and 5:59 p.m. on Friday but between then and Saturday at 6, their vaginas were off limits.
And it's not just the Adventists. There are too many people in church praying like crazy every Sunday, who regularly attend to get their share of whatever the pastor has to offer in the relative privacy of the vestry, or to sate the fires that burn in their loins every single day, whether it's for the sister, the brother or the juicy looking altar boys.
Or it could simply be to get a piece of the collection plate 'action' or anything else sinister that's going on.
My question is why the pretence? Its either you are a Christian or you're not? Who are they trying to fool?
People have always accused me of being an atheist, which I am not. But they make the accusations because I don't run off to church every Sunday and I am still on the fence between the theories of creation and intelligent design. In my mind mankind came to being through a combination of both.
A greater force
I also do not subscribe to living my life by rules that I struggle to believe in. However, while saying that, I do believe that there is a greater force out there that is responsible for what we are and how we came to being. I am just not quite sure where that fits in with what Christians believe.
I also don't buy into the concept of pretending to be something that I am not. With me, what you see is what you get. If you like me for who I am, great; if not, tough.
I'll tell you what though, if there is a judgement day; if there is this 'day of reckoning' that Christians often speak of, I do believe that as I am right now, I have a better shot of getting through those pearly gates than many who claim they are Christians do.
And that says a lot.
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