The Blessings of the World

Blessed are you who seek peace, rest, and quiet in your life for you will never find it.

Blessed are you who live from day to day for money, for you are wasting your time.

Blessed are you who have comfort, for that is all you ever will have.

Blessed are you politicians, for you make our decisions for us.

Blessed are you who live in the shopping malls, because therein is happiness.

Blessed are you homosexuals, because you are normal.

Blessed are you sexually immoral, because you have found lonliness.

Blessed are you who go to college, because you are our better individuals.

Blessed are you people who store lots of money, because you are forever poor.

Blessed are you who believe that there is no God, for you have gotten what you want--irresponsibility.

Blessed are you religious leaders, for you bring confusion to the masses.

Blessed are you porn stars, for you make society healthy.

Blessed are you celebrities, for you are the model citizens of America and everyone loves you.

Blessed are you who recieve these words and are spoken well of by the world, for you are void of any life.

Suubi

Perhaps I am just slightly radical when I say this, but I am convinced that the Gospels are a manifesto of sorts to all people who see their need for a hope because of the desperation of life or circumstance. I mean, to paint a sad picture of this, we just need to look briefly at modern philosophers. Albert Camus said that the only serious philosophical problem that we need to consider is suicide. Fyoder Dostoyevsky said that without God, all things are permitted. These are depressing statements because they indicate that life is indeed a hopeless experience without God. Albert Camus was right--if there is no God then the only serious problem worth consideration is suicide. This lonliness of being is the backdrop, or the darkness of the human soul. Lonliness will lead to moral blindness because God alone is life, and this Life is the Light of humankind (John 1). To be awakened in the natural birth, then to develop in body and mind only to realize that you are alone in an absurd, fallen world is death indeed.

Mark opens up his book by introducing the Son of God as Good News. Good News of what? Good News that by a faith and courage, we can follow Jesus and have hope in a new life through the sacrifice of a loving God. The whole point of the Marcan Gospel is that God has appointed us to live for Him with our heart, soul, strength,and mind in deeply rooted discipleship of Jesus. I am filled with joy when I read and consider the Scriptures because the Helper tells me that all of what has been said in this book is true and that we have a hope. We do not need to be afraid, or to become lost in the seemingly hopeless waste of modern society. Their is an anchor that will hold us in new Life, the Holy One, Jesus Christ.

Overall, the Gospels bear the testimony of Jesus Christ who came as the revelation, dispertion of Life, and the will of the Father (John 1, John 10:10, and 12:50). These are essential a manifesto of God by which we begin to grow in understanding of what God has done for us and do what He commands of us. Finally, in the that Jesus is who He says He is, we should all be filled with Hope that by knowing the true God, we have passed from death into Life. In the death of Jesus we are made whole and bound together in faith. Let us never forget the power God gives in new Life lest we be filled with dread in consideration of the world and it's prestence.
Remain in the peace of the Father, and the world can never harm you in the lonliness it offers.

Soli Deo Gloria!

Protesting War

This is a fascinating video that i found. Those curious about non-violent protesting should have a look at this.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=dorothy+day&hl=en&emb=0&aq=1&oq=dorothy+d#

Christarchist Pt 2. The problem

Another reason that I truly believe that Christian Anarchism is the perfect political alternative is because we have the freedom to separate and unite: separate from this world and it's patterns and unite to one another for the cause of Gospel living. What is old is incompatible with what is new. Thus an old and carnal system of life is not reconcilable with those who put their hands to the plough exploring the alternative of Gospel living. The problems with the social system today are listed here:

1. Our social setting is money. Because greed and waste have been mighty architects, the mass of society is left bankrupt of true life (one of peace).

2. We have made sought to progress in may ways simply for the sake of progression and not for the glory of God. Doing this we encourage society to turn from God and seek self preservation--we lose the necessary fear and dependance on God.

3. Education is secular--we teach alienation from the life of God.