media lies

Today, I had a huge realization...Media Lies. Like I knew that it lied, but I didn't know the extent to which it did. I sat and had dinner with a Palestinian man and shopkeeper today. He was an absolutely wonderful man. Totally hospitable. He told me his story. The Palestinian people have no identity. They can't leave yet they can't stay. They aren't accepted. They are hated. They are hated by religion.

Religion is the killer of society. Religion is a disease. Religion is the root of all problems. Actually my tears are falling right now. How can people live a religious life? The Jewish pray at the western wall, they wail, they cry because that is basically the closest they can get to the holy of holys because a muslim mosque is built on the old temple. How sad a life it must be to think that you have to get close to the presence of God cuz you can't experience it anywhere else. What kind of hope is that?

And the Muslim put a graveyard around the Golden gates where the jewish believe that their messiah comes through. Why would the muslim do that if they don't believe that there is a messiah that will come?

3 of the worlds religions meet here. And the worst parasite that I have seen here is not Islam or Judaism...but so called Christians. I am absolutely ashamed to refer to myself as one. They are the most ignorant people I have ever met. It hurt. What is the point of living this life for Jesus Christ, if in the place where peopel need to see love and life, we don't show it. It hurt me.

I am ashamed to call myself a Christian. Ashamed. BUt you know what, its cuz we have turned something very pure and holy into a religion. GOd doesn't want religion. He wants our hearts. He doesn't want to place rules and regulations on our heads. He doesn't want to suffocate us. why is the north american church becoming religious? Trying to prove our religion right, getting into religious arguments and trying to be right instead of trying to be filled with love.

Its pathetic. What can we do? How can we avoid becoming religious? I haven't figured it out yet, but all I know that there is no life in relgion. And Jesus came to give us life and life to the full.