So, I yet again find myself unable to sleep; seemingly these times are when my brain is most active, since I always come up with some sort of thought that nags me to no end until I cave and abandon my studies to a life of homelessness and starvation paired with third world poverty. By hazard of going to a Christian school, I think about faith a near unhealthy amount, as in like morbidly obese babies kind of unhealthy. Either way, let's kick off tonight's thoughts with a springboard from a previous post of mind entitled, "Can you hear me, Major Tom?"
Now, on to this thought that's holding me back from my hopefully osmotic studies.
I was talking with my chaplain the other day, and by that I mean about a month ago, but the topic has stuck with me since then like a leech, or a barnacle… more like a stray dog hoping for one tiny scrap of food that might possibly fall from your pocket if he follows you long enough. Either way, here it is: what does it mean to be a Christian? Now, hopefully you all watched that video I posted, not the bananaphobic one, but the one of the speech by Charlie Chaplin; a video truly unique and awe inspiring, and in the same way, inspiring of this studier's tangent. See, I found out about that video from my team chaplain's Facebook page, where he posted it with the caption "The Kingdom of God is like…" And following that statement, the video pretty much blew my mind, hence the title of the earlier post of the same video being "Mind. Blown." But I really didn't need to explain that to you guys, right? You're smart. What I'm pondering this dark and lugubrious midnight dreary, weak and weary as I am, is what it means to be a Christian (hooray redundancy!). Now, what I've noticed after deciding to actually pay attention and not spray any more listless junk out of my mouth, is that it really does seem like people are all about the feel of Christianity, and in the surrounding contemporaneous religion in general (keep in mind, folks, that I'm speaking from what I've seen, and am not trying to make a blanket statement; I could be very wrong, and I'm not trying to start a fight). From my narrow perch's viewpoint, I've seen people worshipping God Jesus with the hopes of feeling happy, or getting something off their chest (insert onerepublic here). Honestly, I think that's the main goal of people these days; but, on the other hand, when you (meaning when I) look at the Bible, I see more worship based on servitude and submission to the greater good of the world.
So given all of this mumbo jumbo, I'd like to pose questions to you all now; and I'm asking these as a near theological idiot, so bear with the fallacies please. And I would honestly love to hear what you have to say in the comments, so please, please reply to these as you want, k? K. Why have Christians gotten so anti-religion? Has our understanding of the word "Religion" changed? See, last time I checked, about 10 seconds ago, religion meant:"A specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects." If religion is moot, then what's the point anymore? It seems that one can't get away from religion; that's like someone trying to get away from having a worldview. Therefore, simple thought seems to dictate that everyone has a "religion" in one sense or another of the word. Does that definition make Atheism a religion? Isn't there some sort of sanctity to the name of God, the tetragrammaton YHWH, El-shaddai, El-Elyon, Elohim, Alpha and Omega, "I Am"? What happened to it? All I hear these days is "Jesus," which is all fine and good, but it's almost like most ignore the very existence of Jehova-Jireh. Isn't the trinity supposed to be God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, not Jesus the Jesus, Jesus the Jesus, and Jesus the Jesus? And, in the case of some at my school, Jesus the C.S. Lewis has been tacked on as the fourth part of it.
What does it mean to worship? Is it warship? Is it singing? Dancing? Or doing?
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