Here is a list of things that I've been taught over the years. What's important about this list is that it contains only things that I was taught at church, either from the pulpit, from a Sunday school teacher, in a tract, etc.
1) We shouldn't pay much attention to the words (or life or impact) of Dr. King because he was a Communist and an adulterer.
2) The Beatles were Satanic.
3) Advertisers are trying to subliminally transform me into a sex-and-drug-crazed criminal.
4) We can't gain any wisdom from poetry because a lot of poets were homosexual.
5) The scientists who are warning about environmental crises also believe in evolution, so we can't trust them.
6) Giving money to the poor is often a case of bad stewardship.
7) There are no Christians outside the Churches of Christ.
8) AIDS was engineered by the federal government to punish the homosexual community.
Don't get me wrong, I have learned a lot of truth (including the Truth) from folks at church as well... I guess I just wish that the true message of the good news of Jesus didn't always have to compete with so much other stuff from our churches...
Monday, April 7, 2008
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