On the Common Christian

The common Christian is an individual who is always right, regardless of his layman subjectivity.

Whose callous wrath is more aptly self-termed "righteous anger".

Who creates God in his image via his inexorable interpretation and declares this the objectivity of scripture, while neurotically holding a warning over those who do not, regardless of the glaring existence of a world of denominations.

Is a sinner who demands repentance, but rejects the claims of sinlessness as the logical progression of sincere repentance; i.e., takes pleasure in the concept of a God who takes pleasure in the concept of sending convicts to heaven.

Demands the despotic errancy of the intellect over the application of the heart in seeking and expressing the good.

Is apt to project what he is impulsively repulsed by as irrevocably bad, regardless of what cold reason declares as otherwise possible; see homosexuality, women's rights, etc.

Cannot fathom quantam physics, but CAN fathom Norman Geisler's unfathomed "justifiable" crtique and rejection of it as "proof" of the blasphemy of honest science and metaphysics.

Loves his fellow man...only in reaction to the dreadful "all-seeing eye" (God).

Empties primarily the terms "God" and "Jesus" of all semantic value through incessant repetition, thoughtless repetition, leaving them in the ditch of sentimentality, irrationality, absurdity.

Has no concept of the ideas of awareness, detachment, or meditation, and considers any form of edification outside of their own whitewashed Christendom precisely not edification, but something accursed by God.

Is incapable of commiseration, relatedness, or happiness towards those who are not of "the one, true faith"; relates to others only as a condescending, dehumanizing means of converting them.

Is on a perpetual quest to lower others to their own unhappiness, concealed under the facade of happiness, so absurdly titled "salvation".

Considers the works of Siddharta, Gandhi, Maimanodes, and other non-Christian luminaries expressions of evil, or at the very least falseness, while John Calvin, Martin Luther, and other aaronsic characters are quite the memorable saints.

Reduces God to a concept -- a concept to be feared nevertheless, like the boogyman --, to be revealed as something grand "when we all get to heaven", while spiritual life is a fearful atophied existence here and now.

Neither lives for today, nor tomorrow, but demands that the world does not, cannot, and will find its only living precisely where there is no life: namely, with the the very ones who cannot live.

Christ is a hero, not a savior; is feared, not loved; is fought over, but never lovingly embraced.

God creates only to condemn, and punishes because He is "just", because men are "sinful" and unworthy of love, and such "justice" demands dogmatic adherance to various divine decrees, for no other reason than to escape divine contempt, not for the goodness of His creatures.

Hates the mystic because he is too mystical; hates the rationalist because he "intellectualizes" religion; hates the hated, and hates their attempts at liberation from such hatred.

Despise critiques of their own selfishness, but are so very capable of critiquing the world around them.

Are summed up with these words from Walker Percy: "They, too, are a curious, inquisitive, murderous civilization.... They are sentimental, easily moved to tears, and kill each other with equal ease. Uncognitive of their predicament and pre-help. Paranoid mind-set. Two superpowers, ideological combat but not yet a nuclear exchange. They like wars too, pretend not to, but get in trouble during an overly prolonged peace. Right now they are bored to death and spoiling for a fight."

In short, are not Christians, but proclaim Christianity; are not religious, but claim to be religious, while despising good religion; are not good, but parasitic on all things good; they are, as Nietzsche said, responsible for the conception of the world as evil and bad and little more -- a world as a consequence without a tinge of wonder, beauty, or benevolence.

Even shorter: they are the weak of the earth, in denial of their weakeness, hating the world for its limited freedom from weakness.

But there are some who actually follow Christ.