Overhaul Of The Christian Religion

I have a theory about the whole stink people seem to be making lately about things concerning mentions of God, or even of Christianic religions in general.  (‘Christianic’ meant specifically as the different sects, such as Catholicism, Methodist, Baptist, etc.)  I’d like to say before hand, you have the right to disagree with me, you have the right to tell me you disagree with me, but unless my opinions are treated with respect, any rude/derogatory notes will be reported and deleted.  Perhaps it’s not much of a threat/promise, but frankly, I’d rather not call in the vast knowledge of the people I know who are able to hack up sites and make rude noters wish that they’d never learned how to type.

Anyway, that being said, I think that the religious world in general, as in all religions, are in for something of a revolution.  Christianity has largely been the most popular/widely known religion in the world for very many years.  Yet there have been recent uprisings of other religions.  Wiccan, for instance.  Just in general, the entire idea of New Age mysticism and such.  I won’t say it’s a recent idea that people are following, rather, that the widespread-ness and amount of people openly following have risen in recent times.

And let me backtrack a bit with the Catholic church.  Not too long ago, there was the scandal with what those priests were doing with the young boys in, I believe, the confessionals, (of all places.)  Honestly, you’d think that people, ordained as priests, who have supposedly studied the Bible their entire lives, would know that what they were doing was wrong.

However, I’m not trying to talk of wrong or right where that’s concerned.

There’s also the talk now of taking the "In God We Trust" off of American coins.  And the "under God," out of the Pledge of Allegiance.  I think that’s completely absurd, but once again, I’m not talking of the right or wrong of that.

I’m talking about the secular community’s rising bravery.  Christianity in general has become so corrupt and not only is the secular community seeing that, so are the other religions.  And so people are talking.  Taking actions that haven’t been taken before.  Or if they have been taken before, they weren’t seen very seriously.

I mean, honestly.  "Holiday tree" instead of "Christmas tree" where the Rockafeller tree is concerned?  That’s ridiculous!  No matter where the origin came from, when people see a decorated pine tree today, they automatically think of Christmas, of December 25th, of the celebration of the birth of Jesus.  I mean, if we lit up a huge Menorah, you wouldn’t expect to call that something like "the Holiday Cadlebra," would you?  No!  The Menorah is the Jewish peoples’ symbol of Hannakah, just as a Christmas tree has become Christianity’s symbol.

Yet the church isn’t as strong as it was in the past, what with so much corruption and such going on inside it’s own walls.  Yes, there’s been corruption since religions began, but to what degree?

My main point is that I think within the next fifty or sixty years, there’s going to be something of a religious revolution, and Christianity is going to be shoved in the background, to take its newfound place among the other lesser known religions.

In a way, I see this as a good thing.  Because it measn we’ll have the people who aren’t serious believers and are only in it for ‘what they’ll get afterwards’ out of there.  If the people who claim to follow Christianity can go back to it’s core, then maybe we can start getting things right this time around.

"Christianity will go.  It will vanish and shrink.  I am right and will be proved right.  Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary.  It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me." — John Lennon, 1965