#rick2u

[rickmctumbleface]

WWJRD?

Christ spoke of loving our neighbors, yet many modern Christians disdain others for being harmlessly different.

Christ spoke of not judging others, yet many modern Christians point fingers of blame at scapegoats.

Christ spoke of feeding the poor, yet many modern Christians step over the homeless and curse the jobless.

Christ spoke of peace, yet many modern Christians clamor for walls and war.

Christ spoke of turning the other cheek, yet many modern Christians want capital punishment. 

Christ overturned the moneychangers' tables, yet many modern Christians still hoard their wealth.

To what Jesus do these Christians pray? What Jesus would approve of what they do and what they will not do?

I don't see such a Jesus in the Bible, and most certainly not on the Mount.

I seek out the gentle Jesus. The peaceful, loving, kind Jesus. 

Is there no room for such a Christ in Christianity anymore?

What Would Jesus Really Do?

[rickmctumbleface]

Starting Fires

Look, I get that people are always going to look out first for whatever groups with which they identify, be that their nationality, their political or religious beliefs, their skin color, their gender, their sexual orientation… whatever. It's human nature; just like most people would first save their own family and friends in a fire before trying to save strangers. But here's the thing... There is no fire! At least, there doesn't have to be. Most times, we don't HAVE to choose between us and them. There's plenty of room on this rock for ALL peaceful people, regardless of their differences. But human ego being what it is, we divide ourselves up into feuding fiefdoms anyway, unnecessarily creating an 'us vs them' world and, in doing so, we all are responsible for starting the very fires from which we feel we need to save 'our kind'.

[rickmctumbleface]

We are what we are taught to be, filtered through what we want to believe.

[rickmctumbleface]

I respect other people’s religious beliefs

right up to the point they demand that they be my beliefs, too.

[rickmctumbleface]

Probably not...

I wonder, if there was a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a woman’s right to do with her own uterus as she saw fit, whether people would kowtow as deferentially to that amendment as they do to the second one.

[rickmctumbleface]

There are no easy answers

and we often complicate our lives by insisting there are.

[rickmctumbleface]

Why can't my body be as slow to mature as my mind?

I'd live forever! ...but I'd probably still be in diapers now.

[rickmctumbleface]

Make your points, but don't stab people with them

It is possible to be assertive, to stand up for what you believe in, to be yourself, and to not take shit from anyone, without being a douche about it.