You know...politics never helped anyone.


To me, politics almost seems to distract from real problems that we face daily in the world.
It makes the average believer in Christ more concerned with special interest instead of serving his neighbor.


I'm so sick to death of politics. It used to infuriate me so, concern me daily with arguments, rhetorics, fighting.
I think the fact of how disappointing this term's election process has become has largely resulted in my awakening to my distaste for politics.
Politics are nothing but a fleeting sport, a game of wits and immaturity compared to the real issues which need to be addressed.

There's a single mom somewhere...let's say in Albertville, Alabama(where I live) who feels that the world is against her, that there is no possible way she could be of any consequence to anyone in this world, one who daily faces the terror that her fatherless children could grow to be directionless, affection-hungry, unable to stand up in the world.
And every day, each presidential candidate will promise this single mom that they will make her life better, less stressful, that she will be given more opportunities to reach her ideals.

It never occurs to anyone that neither one of these candidates will give this mother what she really wants or needs. Those candidates are so bound up trying to only slightly please every other interest demographic in the country, her story would get lost in the middle of all the bureaucratic bramble. They just stuff her another check in the envelope. She's fortunate to now be only 2 months behind on rent instead of 3 months.
Then the politician(regardless of party or moral disposition) pats his or herself on the back for doing such a good deed, for treating yet another struggling human being as a duck by a pond eating their hand full of bread crumbs.

Many people will hear of such problems and say that the government should step foward, be more sacrificial, more sensitive, more down-to-earth to the average American.

I say that government never has helped and never will help anyone.

Once upon a time, the church were the ones who lifted the needy out of disaster and inspired hope in them for something better.
That, to me, seems all but lost.

For the most part, the church, especially in the dirty-south "bible belt", is nothing more than just concerned constantly with yet more politics, more bureaucracy. If you don't believe me, look at the average hierarchy of leadership in denominational conventions.
Why does that even exist?
The model in the New Testament was a form of leadership that was created purely to serve the needy.
Today, church leadership, at least in general for probably about 90 percent of churches, is nothing more than a way of working more financially efficient so that they may pay off their mega-plex buildings and pointless decor.
The very existence of the church used to be based around loving God and loving others.
Now it is just another commercial enterprise wearing the suit of religion.


This may sound very dismal to some, but this is, in truth, the American church at large. It doesn't matter what the denomination...baptist, pentecostal, emergent, orthodox.


I am not against the church. Rather, I am against what the church has become.