Revelations 2016

Here's what the Spirit says to the churches: Woe and woe and WHOA!

You who say you are Christians and are not, hear what the Spirit says to the churches: because you have promised to love, honor and cherish MY Creation and have not, I weep for you. Every time you choose the Letter of the Law over the Spirit of the Law, you deny Christ Jesus. Every time you choose for the Old Testament instead of the New Testament, you deny Christ Jesus. Every time you choose to say, "The rules are different for business, for games, for locker rooms" you choose to take off your Christian suit and put a nail in the cross.
Every time you choose to close your door to the stranger. Every time you choose to leave the beaten Samaritan (Mexican, Muslim, gay, queer, transgender, Asian, Nazi, woman, lion, deer, Native American) at the side of the road without succor and help, you deny Jesus. Every time you choose to blame your family's problems on your gay child who nevertheless is the only person in the family to have ever served in the Armed Forces and risked life & limb for the family who has denied him/her, you deny Jesus. When you treat him as if he's an "it" with no feelings, when you say your terrible things wishing he was dead, when you spit in her face, and abandon her, you are spitting in Jesus' face. When you praise the law that allows her employer to fire her without cause, YOU are the one taking the food from her table. When the immigrant sent back to Syria/Mexico dies, that death IS on you.

Oh, your fake tears that have turned my Book into an idol. You were supposed to give up stoning and human sacrifice for the sacrifice of a contrite and open heart. You were supposed to spread Love, not terror, over all the nations. You were supposed to be caretakers, not destroyers. You were supposed to wage war with kindness, not killing. Kindness is the sword that pierces the heart to the true death that prefaces the Life Eternal.

Jesus parables all talk about how the folks he's talking to are supposed to be caretakers for the Master. This beautiful creation is the house of the landlord, who will be returning, and would like to find his servants taking care of the place and each other when he pops in. But you are servants pretending that the place is yours, filling it with trash, lording it over each other, stealing from the treasury.  Every time you say, "This is not your country," you deny Christ. Every time you say, "I am not a bigot, racist, hater," you lie. For all have fallen short.