Spiritual/Political/Philosophical Blog on the Nature of Truth and Falsehood and Heaven
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Sunday, March 31, 2002 18 The Parable of the False Christian To the murderers of spirit and hope, hear this: you shall feast on your sins and die. You shall suffer the violence of evil, and slaughter yourselves in your ugliness. There was a man, a priest, a pretender of faith who hated the people he served. His message was always the same: "Do better. Try harder." Everyday, every week Mister Do Better Try Harder informed the people they were always useless to God. When Do Better Try Harder saw a family, young people with children to raise, he said: be poorer for God's sake." He never saw good in people's lives - only weakness and fear. He could not hate openly, so he hated secretly. He had a gentle manner, a charming condescension which spoke sincerely, tenderly "try harder to do better." Everyday, every week. And people loved him for his easy way of saying, "Do better. Try harder." They thought him kind and patient with them: Fatherly. They thought that God was like that, too; as One dissatisfied in everything with them. Do Better Try Harder never sang for joy, wept in sorrow, made a friend, or saved a soul, but polished well his way of saying, "do better, try harder." Almost everybody said: "he's so sincere", and "isn't he nice", "a true man of God". Yet everyday he said he hated them and found them useless, vain, and stupid because they always failed to "do better or try harder." They never pleased him. One day Do Better Try Harder will die and go to God and learn about his wasted years when he could have sung about the peace in God's love for all his children; when he could have shone with the light of salvation; when he could have wept for sin and laughed for joy. Do Better Try Harder will die one day, but won't be happy to face death or God, the One he never knew. He will say, though, " I did my best to be encouraging." posted by Mark Butterworth | 3:20 PM | |
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