I should probably be sleeping but I'd rather just write about random things. Hopefully nothing will be offensive though I might talk about some rather outlandish things. Anyway here goes.
Recently a man sued his daughter's school district because he thought that the words "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance violated the separation of church and state. The court ruled in his favor. However the case was taken to a federal appeals court where it was ruled that the usage of the phrase "Under God" was constitutional and while they were at it, they ruled that printing the words "In God We Trust" on our currency to also be constitutional. Personally I don't think you could make a decent case that this doesn't violate the separation of Church and State (don't get me wrong, I think it's great that we're still using these words in our government). After all if you say it's constitutional, haven't we amended the thing some crazy obscene amount of times?
So the point of this is that I think this should be sending a message to all of the Christians that think the government is out to get them and wants to destroy Christianity. After all, this ruling about the phrases "Under God" and "In God We Trust" was made in San Fransisco. If that doesn't make you think about the situation again then look at Barack Obama. The man is a Christian. Yes he may have some twisted views on things such as abortion but as far as anyone can tell, deep down he's a God-fearing person. And don't say that he's a Muslim because he was born to a Muslim father therefore he's a Muslim forever, because that doesn't make sense. People do have this thing called Free Will. You know, Rush wrote an amazing song about it, various psychologists came up with crazy theories about it. And let's put it this way, Obama says he believes in God and he attends a Christian church so there's really no case that anyone can make that says he's not a Christian.
So if you think that things are spinning out of control and that the government wants to destroy Christianity, just stop, calm down, and breathe because ultimately God's still in charge of things. Just remember that God can do anything so that means that we don't have to believe that all of God's plans are failing. But just remember that not everyone is against Christians. In fact, far less people are than you think. Many, many social psychological studies have shown that people think that people think about them way more than they actually do. Whether it's something as small as that zit that your hair is partially covering up that everyone seems to be staring at, or the government breathing down your neck about to force you to find the keymaster and start believing in a giant Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man or something to that effect, people really don't care that much. In fact it's a self-fulfilling-prophecy. The more you stress out over these things, the more attention you bring to them, and the more people notice.
So relax because God can keep things going if he wants to. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't stand up for ourselves and shouldn't let God use us to accomplish his plans, that just means that we shouldn't act like the entire world is against us.
Here's something else that I'm going to rant about. I've noticed that a lot of Christians try to shield themselves from people who have religious beliefs that differ from their own because apparently everyone is trying to turn them away from God. Personally I'm friends with Christians from various denominations, atheists, a Muslim, a couple Buddhists, and even a Wiccan. But do they want me to not believe in God anymore? No, they actually don't give a crap about what I believe in as long as I'm not trying to convert them from their religion. That doesn't mean that I won't ever preach to them or anything, it just means that I won't as long as they don't want to hear it. Because as I've said before, preaching to someone who doesn't want to hear you only makes it worse.
And then I've heard a few people (not many, but a few) say that anyone who isn't a Christian is completely evil. Some people may argue but that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. One of my closest friends is an atheist and she's also one of the nicest people I've ever met in my life and I love her to death. Go ahead and argue but if you do argue then I'm pretty sure that most of my atheist friends are nicer than you.
One more thing (yes there is another, possibly more), I have a serious problem with people judging others for problems they have. I'll admit that I used to do this and it got me in trouble with a lot of people, however recent events in my life have put me in the shoes of people like this and I feel like I can no longer judge someone for who they are especially if they didn't choose to be that way. Some people may say that anyone can change anything about themselves. But that isn't true. God can change anything about us but we can't change everything. For some of us, we live with constant hindrances in our lives that tempt us and cause us to sin, yet we continue to fight them and for a lot of people, myself included, these hindrances only build up our faith even though we may live with them for our entire lives. And it also gives us a different outlook toward others and makes us realize that we're no better than anyone else in this world because we struggle with the same things that other people struggle with.
I could go on forever with this but I need sleep. So feel free to post a comment about how you feel or if you wish to debate any of this.
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