The Bastard Daughter of Religion
I had the unique privelege of visiting a mexican prison yesterday with the expressed intent of bringing life, truth, and hope through simple things like brining clothes, food, baby necessities but was troubled by something i found there. The prison seems to operate more like a tribal community with many shops and stores run by the inmates. Don’t get me wrong I’m all for providing opportunities for people to eat and provide but this was more like the scene where Jesus is running people out of sacred space by trying to make it profane for they were pawning off every terribly cheesy-psalm-slapped-on-a-waterfall to every unassuming christian mexican in the lot. Meanwhile from the interior of the church located in the prison I am listening to message (mind you directed to convicted criminals) about how more than salvation, family, truth, God cares more about specifically economic prosperity. I have never in my life listened to something so completely unabashed in error and bought hook line and sinker by everyone there, including the people i visited the prison with! What a low view of Christ when his broken body and shed blood become a means to our end instead of vice versa! How do we/I begin to counteract something like this restoring Christ to his position above every situation and circumstance using prosperity and suffering to make me more like himself?
From Alexis de Tocquville’s visit to America in the late 18th century speaking of the preachers he encountered…
“It is often difficult to ascertain from their discourses whether the principal object of religion is to procure eternal felicity in the other world or prosperity in this”
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