All Our Fault

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi

It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: 

repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; 

a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; 

frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; 

paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; 

a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; 

small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; 

uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on.

This isn’t the first time I have warned you; you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God’s kingdom. (Galatians 5:19-21)