It’s not for Jesus. I read the manual.
Many folks here in Texas and other places are working very hard to build their own Christian communities, councils, and even cities. What do they want from that? Heaven on earth? That isn’t the goal, if you didn’t know your own religion.
See, god and Jesus do not “own” this world according to all your doctrines. I’ve read a few. Satan does. So, sorry you want a Jesus town in Satanville, but Jesus didn’t even want that.
Jesus said what?
Jesus never said “Build white Jesus cities and hoard lots of money.” He did say “go tell folks.” He did not paint pictures of happy smiley retreats, or all white schools. He painted a picture more like a war zone. He said a lot about Heaven, as if that’s where the prize is. Not here. Not with money, in fact specifically not with money, not with luxuries, not even with friends. See, doing right is lonely and dangerous and very often done in poverty. That’s his message. Read it again if you don’t agree, I did.
Even though I don’t like Jesus, he didn’t say what you think he said.
I’m not even sure he existed anymore and he certainly isn’t in my mind, as a white guy anyway. However, I do get peeved when a Christian who has read the same shit I have gets “god blesses you with a bunch of money for doing right,” out of it. Nothing in that whole big dumb book says that, to me.
Good work is often hard work.
Doing right is hard. That’s why religion exists in the first place, arguably. Not to help you get rich, but to help you make it through the day. No one gets it who preaches about finances. No one.
I’ve been to a church that closed a daycare and a kitchen to install a gold steeple here in town. That church is for sale now. Wonder why folks quit feeling good there? Could it be that they gave their members less to do so they went somewhere else to do it?
Doing right often costs money. It’s not cheap. It doesn’t even make sense to be religious and conservative unless you’re distorting the Bible because you think you deserve to be rich. That’s not about Jesus, it’s all about you. And I don’t even like Jesus, disclaimer.
If you like Jesus in the bible, fine. But if you like him rich or white, that’s not the bible.
I read about him, read the Bible, and determined I kinda’ think he’s a douche. But he’s not a douche that advises having millions or billions of dollars and calling it a gift FROM god. It’s supposed to be a gift TO god. As long as rich folks hoard it, they got it turned around.
If Jesus walked up to a billionaire and said, “leave everything, be poor with me, preach gospel, get harassed and beaten, even murdered”… amiright?
But for some reason, these folks turn that message into “hoard money and make babies, maybe your own city.. also, we like abusing women and kids.”
I’m trying to “keep it real.”
We see what we want in religion, not what is actually there. I avoid it for this reason. I want to be present so I can write an account. There’s a lot of interesting shit going on. By chance if anyone ever reads it, I don’t want it to be about Jesus.
Jelly Roll was in the news today and it cracked me up. He went into Louis Vuitton in Australia and complained about the workers there treating him suspect. If you don’t know Jelly Roll, he has prison tattoos on his face. It reminds me a lot of Christians, in general. Jelly Roll should have had the thought “face tattoos are cool but I bet they look at me weird in places like Louis Vuitton.” If he didn’t have that thought, he wasn’t thinking right.
Christians often act victimized because no one sympathizes with them in their made up religion when they act like such assholes. It’s the same lack of self-awareness in Jelly Roll. If you make an ass out of being a Christian, folks might get angry who don’t give a shit about heaven.🤷
I think Jesus and Jelly Roll have perfected how to say “let them eat cake” in several ways so folks don’t get pissed when they say it. Not sure whose fault that is. But I sure get pissed when I hear it.
WWJD?
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