Sunday, August 30, 2009

No Secret

I have come to realize, which is no secret, that there really is no difference between church people and non church people. Of course there is the no smoking, drinking, and public dancing thing (the last being outdated for the most part). At least church people don't tell each other they do. Why do you not take one Baptist fishing with you? He will drink all your beer. Take two instead. You will have all the beer to yourself. They might not even go if there is beer there.

In fact, I find non church people to be more kind and understanding in the face of being wronged. there are exceptions, of course in both cases. The pastor is teaching a sermon on Christians loving other Christians. Is not that the corner stone of the faith. He should not have to teach a sermon on that.

Christians have the same pursuits as non christians. A comfortable place to live. Enough money to enjoy yourself. Two cars. In some cases extreme wealth. If Christians really believed what is in the bible, we would sell everything, purchase an old, crappy truck and fifth wheel and travel the county making sure people don't go to hell.

I rather enjoy unchurched people. I enjoy certain "churched" people as well. Just cut the crap church people. Quit being so psuedo- spiritual.  The world puts you to shame.

I was at church camp this summer playing music for the kids. One session, the teacher was talking about sin. Of all the bad things such as lying, stealing, talking bad about your friends, fighting with no purpose, not loving your fellow human being, what does the speaker pick....smoking. The grandest of all sins. Give me a break. We split churches and treat people terribly, but by golly nobody smokes or drinks. Praise the Lord what a good christian.

The world doesn't hate you because of Christ, they hate you because of you. I hear it constantly from unchurched people. 

Well, I'm done. I'm sure I have been guilty of these things in the past. I hope not again. And no, I am not selling my house and traveling,  telling people how to avoid hell. 

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Dream

So Kim and I had a fight last night at 1 am. She goes to the couch, I go to bed. This is what follows...

I lay in bed stewing over the fight. I then sing the new bass line in my head for song for several mindless minutes. I fall asleep, and Kim and I are driving a small RV on icy roads. We pull over and a cop (who is really not a cop) pulls up behind us, and shoots us both in the head. I ask in a daize why he did that. He tells me he will tell me later. He has an uncanny ability to shoot people and not kill them. If that 's not disturbing enough...

The "cop" is part of a ring of demonic beings who are trying to take over the world. We end up iin a lab where several scary things happen. I end up delivering this thing out of a woman that has horns and rides on this little flying insect thing and it escapes from the lab. Kim has since exited the dream.

I go home to rest from this ordeal, except home is a weird Munsters looking place. I enter the house and there are all sorts of beings in there who won't let me leave. I am terrified. Hollywood would be proud of the monstrous beings my mind created. I begin calling on Jesus to save me or show up or something. I rebuke them in Jesus' name, and they just laugh.

Three amazingly human things show up and I think one of them is Jesus, but he just sits there and looks at me, not doing a thing. I finally get outside, but like gravity the house pulls me back in. New appraoch...sex. Sorry if this is graphic. All men dream like this. If they say they don't they lie, or they are uber spiritual or something.

I will leave out details. This demonic thing seduces me, and finally I am repulsed, and break free. It says it will appear differently. A knock at the door and three women come in. I am being pulled into the trap. I still can't break free from the house. I wake up exhausted.

Still trying to fugure out what it means