Sugar-Coated Cavities

Why is it that faith is so candy-coated in America? I look at those from Africa and Asia who believe what I do, and I find that I'm sickened at the slack-jawed rote and inane platitudes Christians will often follow. The faith of overseas believers in Yeshua (Jesus) is real, concrete, and quite literally tangible. It's inspiring, uplifting. I feel like my own faith is augmented with steel girders when I'm around them.

I am almost ashamed at what I've seen of Christian Culture.

There's a fluttery frivolousness to it that just sickens me. People who try to "Prai-zuh Gee-zus-sah!" or flutter their hands around, start falling and shaking on the ground because "the Spirit is upon me!" just make me nauseous. I see no evidence of that behavior in the Brit Hadasha (Hebrew- "New Covenant," aka: New Testament), and I see no reason why it must be perpetuated and encouraged. The level of ignorance within common Christian culture is astounding, and it's insulting. Granted, not everyone can spend seven of their sixteen hours awake a day studying the Word of God, but that doesn't mean that it should be discarded! On that note, what gall people have that they would claim that the Tanakh is optional to understanding Yeshua and His fulfillment of the Law and the prophesies because "by grace we are saved"! By grace you are saved, but by ignorance, you are condemning yourself! What nerve you have to disregard the foundation to everything you claim to hold dear! The Laws were dictated and set in place for a standard of living. I don't care who you are or what faith you hold to, to see the moral lines that Elohim set in the sand for the Hebrews, their descendants and those who were adopted and grafted into the twelve Tribes is something that we can all learn from!

The amount of junk that wormed its way into "the church," of borrowed holidays that soon replaced the very holy days and festivals that Yeshua celebrated, fulfilled, and encouraged His followers to observe, is horrendous. It's an embarrassment. Moreover, the behavioral pattern expected of women in the Christian church, especially in the more rigid denominations, is appalling. Seen and not heard. Submissive to the point of being doormats. Barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen with a herd of children in the house. Covering themselves from chin to big toe in shame. (Modesty is a completely separate subject, one I'll rant about later, especially the lack in our current society.) There is nothing to support that repression into virtual slavery in the Bible. What man takes out of context, he twists and changes into something to dominate others so that his ego is satisfied, such as the "wives, submit to your husbands" verse. It says that men are to love their wives as Yeshua loves His people! How much does Yeshua love His own? He died for us. He was tortured for us. So what does that mean for a man to love his wife? Hm? Think on that.