I personally think that God/the Consciousness in the universe, doesn't hang on a political framework - so I don't think we should hang him on one. Or Jesus. It isn't only LGBTQs that need to have a safe place to work things out. I want us to have a place to consider inclusion and our beliefs in God without political tension.
I feel like if we can just grasp who God IS, then lesser things will sort themselves out. And we won't be as prone to dismissing each other when we have so much to do.
I was dismissed today by someone I thought was a friend. I said, I am pro all these causes, but not pro-identity politics and I am not up for ownership by any group ever again. Even though I agreed with her on every specific issue, and told her I vote for issues this way, and even told her that though I didn't vote big two, I voted for a candidate who leaned her way, she just up and walked out because I would not carry a card. I am heartbroken... but all the more resolved never to carry a card because to me, this displays more of a bent towards domination and winning, than actual care for causes.
My side will save the world = Fantasy.
It is a fantasy because the enemy and the savior are inside every one of us... whatever cause you want to apply it to. Political polarization is projection and abdication of responsibility. It is actually a method for leaving things as they are.
The world says, get a majority and win. And guess what, that is also what fundamental religion says. If we are on a side, we are the problem.
And listen, I am not talking about being mealy when someone is being oppressed - I am talking about consigning your identity to identity religion and politics.
Law will not heal this country at this point. We are war-torn and we did it to ourselves because we allowed ourselves to be pitted against each other. When we see basic sanity departing the culture, law upon law will not replace it. That will just create a society whose internal morals are based on its laws and whose hearts and minds are switched off. This is like the world Jesus entered...a world totally out of touch with God.
Everything is politics. Politics is no longer a framework of civil function, it is our flesh and our breath and the glasses we see through all day long. It is our god. Our standard of judgment. Our measure of righteousness.
But, not for me. It was not just evangelicalism that I left, but a dead mechanism that shapes evangelicalism and many other large movements. I am trying to leave a fallen framework of humanity.
I am interested in confronting the enemy in me. Forcing a moral agenda is the great evil that allows us to avert our eyes from our own hearts. We are exchanging love for law... both sides... and we are seeing sanity leave us.
Do I want the red pill or the blue pill? How about no pill. I want something older, deeper.
I think a large portion of what Jesus said addressed politics -- both the evils of empire and the shallowness of the zealots, who I call wannabe empire. I don't believe he campaigned for either side, but for connection to much bigger truths about who we are, knowing that we would then respond to injustice from love and a deep place, not from shrill political domination. He wants us ONE. No discarded groups -- either oppressed or oppressive. He points to that hard tiny lost thread of a road, - healing, reconciliation and forgiveness. He is the only way. The Man is otherworldly.
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