Literately Speaking - Beyond Schenectady

the future will remember them as barbarians

posted by Smith @ 1:24 AM 0 comments

Normal by not Darwin nor Genesis

Well so much for what one would expect to be a battle over separation of church and state. After all the fuss between Christians and secular liberals each trying to build society the way they want to live, seculars claiming Christian mores are an establishment of religion and Christians attempting to stem a vulgar tide of rights without restraint, some of the clergy have vacated the camp - or should I say foundation - and brought the church into wedlock with the bible of the state. The mundane had no challenge, and the Word was left to be a decorative paperweight in a meeting where their contention became innocuous and the church took up Babylon’s wine. And after a generous provision had been made for deviance in the privacy of your own home, we now have front row seats.

It has been coming on for a time, but the wine flowed in Massachusetts with the legalizing of homosexual marriage. The media gave little coverage to the churches that have held their conviction, making the event appear to be approved by most churches. A Rev. Carter Hayward announced intent to rebel against the church doctrines and lead her flock down that ever more precipitous slippery slope that began some forty years ago with pressure for tolerance for the baby boomer’s thirst for sex.

In the sixties it was free sex; if it feels good do it. The pill took away the excuses and we found out men were not the only promiscuous ones. When that failed in prevention, we needed abortion to keep it all going; we desensitized ourselves with cell matter, medical procedure, and choice over our own body to extinguish the truth and kill the consequence.

Meanwhile sex needed some help - it just gets same-old after awhile - so came the more unusual forms, helped along with books such as “Joy of Sex”, and homosexual sex began to find a fit among the uninhibited on the slanting stage.
Rebellion against social norms helped keep the slope tipping, and marriage was deemed a false wedding, just a piece of paper when love was all we needed; and an easy escape when things get tiresome.

Well, what was a church to do with all these casual sex people who demanded divorce so they could move on after the frosting was off the cake, excommunicate them and loose all those offerings, or crumble its foundation and follow them to keep the pews filled? Being divorced and remaining in the church was possible; it just wasn’t easy. And that doesn’t feel good. You can’t feel good when there are consequences.

In those days most churches, led more often by the depression era generation, stood on Biblical foundations hoping to prevail before the money ran out. Eventually, with incoming boomers and empty pews, some churches solved the problem by blurring the line between: “I don’t condemn you” and “go and sin no more”, and then getting rid of the sin part all together.

Rebellion in the clergy and by whole denominations has been fed by these boomers who never boomed past the communal notion that everything should be shared in the one-way sense of free; you should just give it to them. In religion it has become not what God has designed, but what they think it should be for them.

So, the final touch is to create God in our own image; He will adjust to us, that’s the new grace. If we can’t control our urges, well, that’s our natural thing, so we can rationalize the Bible - if we must - and legitimize what feels good.

The boomer clergy is erasing the line between church doctrine and state permissiveness, and beating their Bibles into the stardust of the sixties. But the ninety plus percent of heterosexual population is there - over sixty percent against homosexual marriage - and it isn’t star gazing through the new found marriage proposal to a church wracked with divorce, free love, and abortion, no matter how much the media minimize them. This may be the straw that breaks the cradle and wakes the gospel according to the Bible.

The parishioners of the Alpha and Omega school are watching for the final verdicts from church leadership; and after that, there will be the exodus. Make no mistake about it; churches that legitimize homosexual sex by performing marriages are the ones being shaken out. They will still be called churches of course; they will just be in purple haze instead of the Kingdom. In the new age of the church potential members will interview to find out whether its charter is: The Bible and spiritual life, or The Follow Our Urges Social Club.

posted by Smith @ 12:55 AM 0 comments