Silly Church People

Real- 1) Not imaginary, fictional, or pretended; actual. 2) Authentic or genuine.

There once was a time when I thought I was a Christian. In fact, I had all the “church people” that I knew thinking the same thing. I wasn’t trying to be a fake, but in the end that’s what I was.

Being the good little “Christian” though, I wanted to help get sinners “saved.” Yet in doing so I made the very same crucial mistake that most other church people (who care about getting souls “saved”) make; I forgot what it was like to be a heathen.

Just as it’s impossible to accurately group all church people together, it’s also impossible to group all of us heathens together. I know that there are plenty of reasons that heathens (which when I say it, I mean anyone not “saved”) want nothing to do with church and God.

Despite all of the varying reasons and excuses, there is one thing that pops up very frequently. Heathens want nothing to do with church and God because when they look at God or the church, they see nothing real.

Have you ever seen an advertisement for something and then gone out and got one and then have it not live up to what was advertised? I think that’s what happens to many people when it comes to God and the church. Although many people are observant enough to see before they even “buy” into it all, that it isn’t what was advertised.

In fact I’m pretty sure that church people already know, at least subconsciously, that they are selling something that no one will buy. True, they could never admit that without being a heretic, but I’m certain that it’s true anyhow.

If church people didn’t already know that heathens want nothing to do with God or the church, why do they usually have to go to the lengths that they do in order to get people in their doors? They’ll put on concerts, plays, bring in “special speakers,” have pizza parties, bring groceries to poor people, and do anything and everything they can to make church seem upbeat, fun, and cool. All so that they can throw in a little “gospel message” and think they did something wonderful for God.

For those of you who aren’t aware, an “evangelistic outreach” is a church-term for doing something to try and get sinners saved. Yet did you know that when churches do evangelistic outreaches, such as Billy Graham’s “crusades,” most often over 90% of the seats that are filled are filled with people who are already “saved” (at least in their own minds)?

It must take a truly awesome God to have followers who constantly need to be “re-saved” all the time. It must take a truly powerful God to be able to change people’s lives so drastically that in months, or sometimes weeks, the people are back the exact way they started; except now they sit in church. It must take a mighty big God to be so “real” that even his own people can’t agree on who he is, what he’s like, what he allows, and what it takes to follow him.

I think that if we heathens actually saw something real in the church or in church people, that there might really be lots less of us around. If there really weren’t more hypocrites in church than Christians, perhaps there wouldn’t be as much skepticism when people look at the church and it’s pew-warmers.

If the church ever WAS a tool of God, it isn’t anymore. It’s a self-sustaining beast that is motivated much more by internal politics than divine guidance. It’s a money-machine that collectively brings in more revenue than most of the world’s biggest corporations (and none of that can be taxed, at least here in the States). It’s a place to go to boost your spirits when you feel down or worthless.

It is NOT the body of Christ as the Bible says.

But alas, this will never change now. There are too many people making money off of it the way it is. There is too much invested, both financially and in effort, to change it now. The church is a sinking ship (hehe, almost typed “shit” there…I suppose that could’ve fit too…) in which the people on board would rather keep trying to bail water than to fix the leak.

Silly church people.

It’s a well-known, although not widely publicized, statistic among churches that between 80%-90% of people who get “saved” eventually “fall away.” Now if 80%-90% of the cars coming out of Detroit died 50 miles down the road, there would be a lot of people scrambling to find out what’s wrong and trying to fix the problem.

Instead, church people sing more songs, have more special speakers, schedule more activities, and try to blind themselves to the fact that a problem even exists.

Silly church people.

The funny part of this whole thing is that the people in churches delude themselves to think that they are, in fact, changing the world. They think that they are doing God’s will. They also think that because God hasn’t personally stopped by to bitch at them and since their money keeps coming in, that he’s blessing their efforts.

Silly church people.

It’s very easy to say that people shouldn’t judge God by his followers. Yet we heathens aren’t bound by the “judge not” rules, and so judging God by his followers is exactly what we do. Just as the church will never change and stop being the fruitless shell that whores itself with the world, we heathens will never stop judging God by his so-called “followers.”

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“Zombies staring
Looking my way
Crying out for something
They can’t fill their stomachs
With enough to satisfy the hunger growing…
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Needing something REAL…”
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