Just another reason to disdain organized religion. It seems to me that NONE of the Churches truly follow the teachings of the Bible.
Now WHAT.????
First one must ask what is a Church today and what was the original purpose of a Christian Church.?
The first Christians for hundreds of years had no Bible to follow. Jesus himself told his followers not to cast Pearls after Swine.
At first people gathered in caves and in secrete to pass on the teachings to avoid being tossed to the lions. No Bible, just word of mouth.
It was the Christians that went forth and in private worked to heal the sick, to teach about Gods love, to give comfort to the dieing and risk their own lives to
minister to the Jews a new path to God.----All without a bible at that time.
These Christians at the time did not spend spend their money on huge awe inspiring edifices of rock and carved stone. They worked behind the scene to build a spiritual and loving comunity . They had no leader to interpret what God wants from us, no Pope at the time, just a Faith handed down from their ancestors.
Some how this Faith has survived 2000 years, not due to to the Preachers, not due to any organization or Church.
Today those that make millions off the beliefs of those in need, the old the sick and those with guilty conscious have turned the faith into a money making machine, yet they are the first to proclaim hate toward the Jewish Pharisees that did the same.
Christianity survived because people [ some of them] were willing to risk death to teach.
Today the Teachers own multimillion complexes, have a fleet of expensive cars and friken body guards. I will bet that some of them are willing to except Muslim money as they feel that somehow those teachings are also valid.
Fitt NO. 15 over and done.