Friday, April 06, 2007

So Where Are the Judeo-Christian Values?

I keep hearing a number of religious laymen espousing their political views and supposedly basing these views on their interpretation of Scripture. I actually heard a man say that "Jesus" said we were to obey man's laws, when we know specifically that was the continuing difference between everything Messiah stood for and taught and the insistance of the Pharisees. Rome and the Pharisees wanted everyone to believe that G~d had ordained and blessed their assumed co-authority, yet Messiah peacefully and respectfully taught otherwise. Messiah said to give to Caesar what what Caesar's and to G~d, what was G~d's, and the Pharisees were just flat wrong. Clearly there was a difference between G~d's Sovereignty and the Roman government. Messiah plainly stated that G~d and country were not the same. So much has been lost in the translation in the time between Constantine and King James . . . I listened this morning to the "school lunch menus" and discovered that most of the schools in our area were closed, but many across the state were not. Now, I don't believe that Messiah died on Friday, but there is very little acknowledgment of His death, in our society at all by this time. I realize Passover and the week of Unleavened Bread are not recognized in our country as a holiday of national recognition, but rather of Judaism. Well, our nation espouses Judeo-Christian values, so if Passover and the week of Unleavened Bread are a Jewish observance and the Messiah observed these Holy Days, why wouldn't it be recognized as such, in a nation with Judeo-Christian values, or at least acknowledged? Actually these Holy Days are not limited to Judaism but are Biblical Holy Days. Every place I went this past week was decorated with colored eggs and bunnies, and that is recognition of a holiday in this country, but what does the celebration of fertility and Ishtar have to do with Judeo-Christian values? I have actually been told by someone that they were having a "dinner" not celebrating Christ, just spring . . . So, no national Passover, okay, freedom of religion or from religion. The kids still go to school and there is no national holiday for Good Friday. Okay, again freedom of or from religion and Scripturally, Friday just doesn't add up, anyway, but . . . Being surrouded by colored eggs and bunnies everywhere I go, is in fact a national pagan celebration, and most businesses will in fact, be closed Sunday. These pastel decorations with bunnies and eggs and little fluffy chicks are all part of a religious celebration also. Why is this pagan ritual and celebration accepted, year and after year, nationally and religiously in our nation of Judeo-Christian values?
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

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