I apologize once again for quitting this blog. I have replaced it with another that leaves me with a greater range to post about and not talk down about God.
Christian American Opinions is more of my views about this world we live in. Our declining morals and government, the economy and anything I feel a need to talk about.
One article that I feel very very strongly about is I am an American. I feel all Americans need to read this, whether you are Democrat, Republican, Independent or anything else.
9/19/09
8/21/09
Thinking about Quitting this Blog
I have been finding it more and more difficult to write on this blog lately. A part of me wants to give a better picture to the world that being a Christian is not the same as what the world portrays it to be. Christians are not all happy go lucky people and living in a perfect world without sin. Christians are also not the ones who talk about being a Christian and turn around living a life of sin. Christians are real people who suffer just as much, and in my opinion quite a bit more often, than worldly people. Christians face the same struggles and have sins they battle every day.
My problem is that I do not feel right doing this blog anymore. I am not a very good Christian in my own way and when I write an article when upset with God, I am setting a bad example for Christianity.
If my problems are due to my own sin or lack of faith, then I am wrong to blame God and say things that might turn people away from loving God. I do not want to face God when I die and whether I am heading to Hell or Heaven, I do not want to know that what I have written might have turned others away from God.
If I am already condemned for some reason, and God really does ignore me, then I am the wrong one to write about God. I know God is real. I know that Heaven is real. I know Jesus is real. I do not want my selfishness and my self pity to be a part of anyone turning away from God rather than turning to God.
A gentleman recently e-mailed me. He thanked me for placing the song by Don Francisco on my blog. It made me feel really good that something I did made a difference to the good. That is what I want to do. I want to make people happy. I want to give people reasons to love God and have faith in Jesus. Not hinder them.
Yet, I look at where my life is headed. My lack of a future. My wife does not love me or respect me. My career is dead. I am having physical problems that will really hinder me in finding a new career (Numbing in the hands and pain in the feet). I do not see any hope of having a new career before my unemployment benefits run out. My efforts on blogging are failing as well. Right now, I just do not see any hope. This lack of hope (and my lack of faith) makes me a horrible candidate to write good things about God.
Simply put, if I cannot make a difference to the good, then I feel wrong continuing if I can only do harm. So far, I feel I have probably done a lot more harm than good for God. So I am considering the idea of discontinuing this blog.
To those who have been reading it, I do appreciate it very much. I really do.
My problem is that I do not feel right doing this blog anymore. I am not a very good Christian in my own way and when I write an article when upset with God, I am setting a bad example for Christianity.
If my problems are due to my own sin or lack of faith, then I am wrong to blame God and say things that might turn people away from loving God. I do not want to face God when I die and whether I am heading to Hell or Heaven, I do not want to know that what I have written might have turned others away from God.
If I am already condemned for some reason, and God really does ignore me, then I am the wrong one to write about God. I know God is real. I know that Heaven is real. I know Jesus is real. I do not want my selfishness and my self pity to be a part of anyone turning away from God rather than turning to God.
A gentleman recently e-mailed me. He thanked me for placing the song by Don Francisco on my blog. It made me feel really good that something I did made a difference to the good. That is what I want to do. I want to make people happy. I want to give people reasons to love God and have faith in Jesus. Not hinder them.
Yet, I look at where my life is headed. My lack of a future. My wife does not love me or respect me. My career is dead. I am having physical problems that will really hinder me in finding a new career (Numbing in the hands and pain in the feet). I do not see any hope of having a new career before my unemployment benefits run out. My efforts on blogging are failing as well. Right now, I just do not see any hope. This lack of hope (and my lack of faith) makes me a horrible candidate to write good things about God.
Simply put, if I cannot make a difference to the good, then I feel wrong continuing if I can only do harm. So far, I feel I have probably done a lot more harm than good for God. So I am considering the idea of discontinuing this blog.
To those who have been reading it, I do appreciate it very much. I really do.
8/13/09
Is there Anything Worse than Pseudo-Christians?
I see them so often. People who are quick to loudly pronounce they are Christians, talk about God and going to church, then set a bad example for the rest of the Christian world.
I am a sports guy. I love sports and I love fantasy sports. Presently I have six fantasy baseball teams going and I am proud to say that presently, only one of them is worse than 3rd place in its league. In one particular league I was in first for a long time. There was a gentleman in that league who in the beginning, talked about going to church in the message boards. His team was in the middle of the pack for most of the season. Suddenly he moved up to 3rd place then 2nd and now has taken me over for first place. A month ago, I caught him cheating.
He made a trade with another team and got two top players in their positions and gave the other team absolutely nothing back. This in the fantasy sports world is known as collusion. Looking at his teams transactions, I found he has made around a dozen trades in the year. Six of those trades was to the same team and five were to another team. Both teams he trades with are in last place. Every time he trades, he always gets players who are hot and gives up players in slumps. He was obviously cheating and I called him out on it.
I simply told him it was pretty cheap that he would cheat like that and his latest trade was very cheesy. He replied by insulting me. In the ensuing exchanges, I told pointed out exactly why and how he was cheating and told him what really upset me was that he loudly pronounced himself as a Christian and then to cheat like he was sets a bad example to the world for Christianity. He e-mailed me and called me a A**Hole. Now, maybe I am one, probably so, but in this case I never insulted him, cheated or did anything wrong.
Right after that, the owner of another team chimed into the message board and left a post calling me names. He continued to leave messages with vulgar insults towards me for days after. They did not stop until I left a post to someone else explaining what was happening and pointed out that this other guy was either a friend of the one cheating, or was the same person. Since it stopped, I tend to think this one person owns several teams in the league.
I cannot tell you how much I want to win that fantasy league. I wouldn't care if all of my teams ended up in last place, as long as I win with that team. I absolutely hate cheaters. But to have someone cheating so blatantly, calling me names and cussing at me when he has posted several times about going to church and being a Christian?
I am so sick of hearing others talk bad about Christianity because of things they have seen the pseudo-Christians do. Some nut crack goes out and kills people in the name of God and the world looks at him as an example of what religion does. I have heard people say that wars have started over religion and they group Christianity in with them. They do not understand that Christianity would NEVER start a war. A Christian would not ever harm someone just because they don't believe the same way. God is not about vengeance or hatred. Jesus is about love and compassion and forgiveness! The ones who do all of those bad things are people who have no idea what Christianity is all about and just shout that they do it for God.
Yet the pseudo-Christians will continue to do what they do. The world will continue to point their fingers at them and say "There is your Christianity!" It saddens me. It maddens me. And the best thing I can do about it is write about it in a blog that few people read.
I am a sports guy. I love sports and I love fantasy sports. Presently I have six fantasy baseball teams going and I am proud to say that presently, only one of them is worse than 3rd place in its league. In one particular league I was in first for a long time. There was a gentleman in that league who in the beginning, talked about going to church in the message boards. His team was in the middle of the pack for most of the season. Suddenly he moved up to 3rd place then 2nd and now has taken me over for first place. A month ago, I caught him cheating.
He made a trade with another team and got two top players in their positions and gave the other team absolutely nothing back. This in the fantasy sports world is known as collusion. Looking at his teams transactions, I found he has made around a dozen trades in the year. Six of those trades was to the same team and five were to another team. Both teams he trades with are in last place. Every time he trades, he always gets players who are hot and gives up players in slumps. He was obviously cheating and I called him out on it.
I simply told him it was pretty cheap that he would cheat like that and his latest trade was very cheesy. He replied by insulting me. In the ensuing exchanges, I told pointed out exactly why and how he was cheating and told him what really upset me was that he loudly pronounced himself as a Christian and then to cheat like he was sets a bad example to the world for Christianity. He e-mailed me and called me a A**Hole. Now, maybe I am one, probably so, but in this case I never insulted him, cheated or did anything wrong.
Right after that, the owner of another team chimed into the message board and left a post calling me names. He continued to leave messages with vulgar insults towards me for days after. They did not stop until I left a post to someone else explaining what was happening and pointed out that this other guy was either a friend of the one cheating, or was the same person. Since it stopped, I tend to think this one person owns several teams in the league.
I cannot tell you how much I want to win that fantasy league. I wouldn't care if all of my teams ended up in last place, as long as I win with that team. I absolutely hate cheaters. But to have someone cheating so blatantly, calling me names and cussing at me when he has posted several times about going to church and being a Christian?
I am so sick of hearing others talk bad about Christianity because of things they have seen the pseudo-Christians do. Some nut crack goes out and kills people in the name of God and the world looks at him as an example of what religion does. I have heard people say that wars have started over religion and they group Christianity in with them. They do not understand that Christianity would NEVER start a war. A Christian would not ever harm someone just because they don't believe the same way. God is not about vengeance or hatred. Jesus is about love and compassion and forgiveness! The ones who do all of those bad things are people who have no idea what Christianity is all about and just shout that they do it for God.
Yet the pseudo-Christians will continue to do what they do. The world will continue to point their fingers at them and say "There is your Christianity!" It saddens me. It maddens me. And the best thing I can do about it is write about it in a blog that few people read.
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