Western christianity finds itself at the center of a quandary of biblical proportions. Whether or not it is their christian duty to wear a mask. Barring thoughts of “the mark of the beast” and other idiotic conspiracies the church finds American individualism diametrically opposed to its christian identity.

They are told to care for the sick and elderly, widows, children…the whole “least of these” situation. At the same time the church bemoans the ability to gather physically, hug, shake hands and all of the things that it is known Jesus commands. The church falls down while trying to live exactly what they are commanded to do. How does this particular thing happen?

Largely it’s because of Western christianity. It’s a very different breed of religiousity than that of Biblical geography or even timeline. They are so ingrained with a sense of individualism that the church fails to provide for others. It’s a consumer based church, not a mission based one. The mere existence of the need for public assistance points to the inability of the church to execute on simple commandments. I once read that a church spends an average of $45,000 per salvation within their own building. How many folks did they actually feed though?

If you dig long enough you’ll find that the true Church is grounded more in communal concern(bordering communism), collectivism and a lack of individual concern whereas the western implementation of it is wrongheaded. The true divergence is the implicit individualism imparted on the modern American. For a country “founded in christianity” the church has little to no regard for the true Christian concerns from the Bible.

Dear Church, if you want to understand why people are leaving you in droves it’s not the hypocrisy of the individual church members, that’s to be expected. It’s the corporate and blatant separation of the church from it’s foundational beliefs. It’s the corporate hypocrisy of the implementation of the words of Christ within the confines of your comfortable air conditioned seat.

Politics are becoming increasingly difficult for Christians. Willfully accepting the paradigm that they are voting for the lesser of two evils.

I’m not sure what passage in the Bible covers the part where Jesus commands us to flip a proverbial coin.

I’ve heard enough church talk to know that the wonderful catchphrase “….but Hillary” is the rebuttal to anyone with half an ounce of sense pointing out the very clear point that our current president is not a Christian. He is selling you an image and you are buying because of your inherent need to be a winner or sheer laziness. You’ve sold your moral compass so you can be a part of the winning team.

From his fumbling of his “favorite” Bible verse, to the awkward post protest photo op he took in front of a church he doesn’t attend holding onto a bible he doesn’t own and pausing for visual effect. HOW. CAN. YOU. BE. SO. BLIND.

This brilliant piece of showmanship reverberates through social media with a resounding “THATS MY PRESIDENT” or “TRULY A MAN OF GOD” from the very fools he calculated would be duped with this dog and pony show.

Church let me tell you one thing. When you find yourself unable to pay bills, empty seats and a failing institution understand it’s this type of hypocrisy that caused it. It’s this level of aloofness that points to a willful ignorance to the state of affairs in our nation currently. You can no longer expect people to respect your establishment of religion if you make a mockery of it daily. There are clear principles contained in your “holy” text. You better find a way to stand on those principles that doesn’t result in a “lesser of two evils” solution. Otherwise your mere existence is in peril.

Many of us have already abandoned your ideals because you simply cannot be trusted.

Dear Church,

Stop using the “All Lives Matter” false equivalence. We’ve entered a time in our society where it’s time for you to shut the fuck up. Unless you are a person of color, your opinion and viewpoint is likely moot. Back up, shut up and post up. It is time for you to listen to the world describe to you the experience that White America has catered for a good portion of the world.

You don’t really believe all lives matter, if you did you’d be marching with the rest of world.

You don’t really believe all lives matter, if you did you’d be protesting the death penalty.

You don’t really believe all lives matter, if you did you would denounce the

You don’t really believe all lives matter, if you did you wouldn’t be in a rush to reopen the economy while spouting “…the cure can’t be worse than the disease”.

Your reluctance to denounce bad behavior emphasizes the fact that you have let Jesus down. You have played an integral role in pushing people away from Christ.

“whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

You believe white lives matter. You believe the lives of the people you care about matter. You believe that the status quo matters. You want to pick and choose when it’s convenient for life to matter. For that you are the tried and true definition of the church, a gathering of the hypocrisy for a moment of fellowship and validation of a myopic world view.

Dear Church,

You spend thousands upon thousands each year to eliminate barriers to entry in the hopes that someone new will attend your church only to jump on Facebook Tuesday afternoon and espouse the xenophobic ideals of our POTUS.

Stop wondering why your credibility is shot.

Sincerely,
j.postXtian

p.s. If you can’t see the diametrically opposed stances hit me with a comments and I’ll let you know.