Rainbows and Unicorns

It's all too easy to be a sheep. That whole "Just do as you've been told your whole life and things will be ok." is a big pile of garbage. This kind of thinking ran me in the ground to a point that I didn't even know who I was other than this little robot that follows the commands that's input into it. I definitely think God is more concerned about a person living a real and honest life, than he is about you following some list of preset, mostly man made rules that's supposed to apply to everyone on the planet.

The truth in this life is not easy to deal with most of the time and I think that's why most people gravitate towards the modern day Christian church in the U.S. . The church machine does a great job in smoothing things over, giving you a nice little list of things to do and tasks to accomplish and then says "If you do all this, life will be all rainbows and unicorns". The old saying "you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig" very much applies here. Most people in the modern day church system are scared to admit that after all the hoops they've jumped through and after doing everything they were told, they were still just a nasty swine with bad make-up.

I really do think that too many of the modern day; Christian churches in the United States have become just another huge escape from reality. If I'm right on this, and I think I'm not too far off base, I'd rather go check out the local death metal band tear it up at my favorite club. I'll get the same amount of satisfaction and not have to deal with all the politics (not to mention that the cover charge is cheaper and they have better drink specials). Let's face it, most people want God to create this make believe life for them that excludes human struggle and imperfection. Rather than facing up to who they really are, they want God to wave his magic wand and turn them into the next Joel Osteen.

Sometimes reality really does suck but pretending to live a life that is totally fake is 10 times worse. At least when I'm true to myself, I know who I am (no matter how flawed) instead of being someone's perfect little pose able action figure.