Thursday, August 23, 2012

Christianity Problems

I recently saw a Facebook post (I hate to admit that I'm on that site) that basically told everyone to not buy Pepsi cans anymore because they recently made a patriotic can with the Pledge of Allegiance on it but they did not include "under God" in the pledge. This person was obviously a Christian and probably thinks they're a great one too because they always post statuses about protecting the faith. But what I don't think they understand is that all of their statuses are hateful ones. Do Christians not understand that they are called to be loving individuals. The most loving people of all, actually. But these thoughts that people have, it makes me wonder about their faiths. I mean, this is a little incident that means absolutely nothing. A Facebook status on Pepsi cans is very insignificant and will end up meaning nothing, as people will keep buying Pepsi cans and Pepsi will probably stay in business, I don't know it might be a close call. Ha. Anyway, I'll take this Pepsi outrage as an example. If the corporation leaves out God in it's work in the safe call to not offend anyone, that's probably because they don't see God as Christians do, or the right-minded ones anyway. Not to say that there aren't Christians in the Pepsi company because I'm sure there are a ton. But, if there are some non-Christian folks in that company, that means they might be uneducated in the Christian department or maybe they had a bad experience with the church. Either way, they are less fortunate than Christians are, so we shouldn't reprimand them for that. I tried to keep out of this post but I am, in fact, a Christian.  Our work is to educate people on their religion and spread God's word, not to stick our noses up at people that aren't of that religion. I think that is what's wrong with Christians and the lack of spread of the religion today. Christians get so caught up in wanting to please God that they forget to help other people that haven't received God but instead, reprimand them for not doing so because they think that is what God wants. Instead, if Christians show love toward everyone, not just each other, than the world might just see this and see what God's love can do. Another thing, if I want Pepsi, I'll buy a Pepsi, I don't think my views and their views conflict when a buy a beverage. Just like with Chic-Fil-A, if a want a chicken sandwich  I'll buy one. Just because a buy food from Chic-Fil-A does't automatically mean that I support the anti-gay movement, I just want food. Ramble complete.

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