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Not As I Do

By Ryan, January 14, 2009

I’m so sick of Christianity.

My loyal reader(s) should already be familiar with the saying “do as I say, not as I do,” which is the hypocrite’s creed. Unfortunately, it’s slowly evolving into the Christian’s creed. Brennan Manning, a Christian author and speaker, famously put it this way:

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
We see this happening everywhere. For example, on Facebook, people will write glowing things about Jesus in the “Basic Info” portion of their profiles, but will openly disregard his teachings via their pictures, status updates, and messages on other people’s Walls.

I won’t argue with people for wanting to set their religious views to say “I Love Jesus,” and it’s not my place to condemn everyone who updates their status to boast of having sex after homecoming or prom. But if you have both on your Facebook profile, this post is for you. Pick one or the other—either the religious views or the hints about your current lifestyle—but if you wanna send a message to the world that you are undisciplined and immoral, don’t do it on God’s rep.

If you know that I “got ya” in this post, I have an ultimatum for you. You can change the religious views portion of your profile to “atheism.” Bring down that belief system, not the one that is supposed to be an example to the world (as stated in Matthew 5:16). Or, even better, you can change your life.

If you take option 1, you can continue to live in disgrace as you take advantage of His grace, and I won’t be the one to stop you. But if you take option 2, please know that God will help you every step of the way and that I, too, support you 100%.

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Anonymous Anonymous:

Good message dude, I run into this all the time at UT, 9% of UT students are christian and the reason that everyone else is not is because of either witnessed hypocrisy or the judging that some christians do which is also hypocrisy since it does indeed say not to judge. Keep up the good work ur headed down a good path
January 14, 2009 1:31 PM

Blogger Ryan:

Thanks... it's not quite as bad at CCCC, especially since most of the people there still live with their parents, but it's still enough to incite the passion to write something like this.
January 14, 2009 1:36 PM

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