Christians should act like Christ

Over the years I have thought that our society was getting better and we were making progress. But the ugly head of racism pops up again and again. The worst part of our human existence is during times that our group consciousness permits and supports slavery and murder of other humans because of our own egoistic and self-centered minds. These human minds can justify enslaving and even killing someone else.  After all, they are superior.  But it's not just racism. It's any kind of ego-centric bigotry. People hate others of different skin color, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or whatever difference we think up.  But the point is what are we doing? We keep going over and over the same issues and we don't seem to get it. And unfortunately our national religious minds seem to be encouraging the ego-centric mindset. That's right. I'm talking about Christianity in America.

I would like to challenge anyone who calls him/her self a Christian to reflect upon what it means to be a Christian. Christianity has a bad past about supporting some pretty crazy things. I won't go over our past but it's the present evangelical Christians in America that concern me the most. They seem to be supporting an extreme right wing white egomaniac.  They have been supporting conservative policies that help keep the wealthy in power and deny human rights to every person.  

A Christian is not just someone who says "I'm saved" and then go to heaven. A Christian is a person who tries to act like Christ. Jesus Christ would never support any kind of superior attitude toward any other person. He would not support any form of racism or bigotry. He would not support feeling superior to gays or lesbians.  Christ would accept and love every single person in the world.  The love of Christ is the love of God.  Jesus very clearly said that he is unconditional love and that we should be like him.  So, therefore, to be a Christian we need to try to have unconditional love for everyone.  That seems simple to me and I got it when I was growing up.  I understood as a young person that Christ was love and that I should live as close to being like Christ that I could.  I got it.  But then I looked around and saw all these so-called Christians who seemed to espouse being a Christian but they just didn't seem to get it.  They seemed to not understood his simple message.  What part of love others as yourself do they not get?  What part of love your enemy is confusing?  Jesus helped everyone.  Jesus loved everyone.  We should do the same.

Love is a basic of human existence.  Our consciousness wants love but our ego is like a child that is growing up and trying to learn to love others and not be such a selfish baby. But we have a long ways to go.  Christ lived 2,000 years ago and gave us a simple message of loving each other but we are apparently pretty slow learners. It's going to take us as a national mind a while longer to get it.  I ask that the evangelicals think about it and try to understand the simple message of Christ.  Are you acting like Christ or are you acting through your ego by calling yourself a Christian in order to feel superior?