The revolution is here, and it is us

A brief response to I Consider Myself A Christian.

A book I would highly recommend for any "Christian" disturbed with "Christianity" is Jacques Ellul's The Subversion of Christianity.

Make no mistake; Christ was counter-cultural, and subversive, and not in the tame sense that we typically see today. He was not an ideologist, attempting to replace monarchy with democracy, socialism with capitalism, or grant slaves freedom or women suffrage.

Christ took things a step further; treat the slave as free, treat the woman as a woman, a person of value. Love children. Be wise and wary of financial gain. Be wise and wary of all authority. Early Christians were persecuted because they severely threatened the status quo, and undermined Jewish and then Roman society.

The arguments I have been hearing since I came to the states (first all this God is Republican bull, followed by the God is Democrat bull) are caught in the trappings of a religiosity that is anything but the freedom that Christ gives. Throw off those shackles.

Let us continue this subversive revolution; treat the poor as though they are already rich; the rich as though they are poor. The powerful as though they are weak, the sick as though they are healed, the downtrodden as though they were lifted up, and love our enemies.

This behavior will shake all foundations, and will undermine not only this government, but the next and the next. It will bring down not only this religion, but all religions. It will subvert culture, and challenge society.

Let us live with faith, as though what is not, is. The revolution is here, and it is us.