Let’s sort out Christianity as it is happening in 2026.

No prob, this should take about 10 minutes.

 

I have started this essay six times and I have not brought the argument into any organized whole yet. It has occurred to me that this topic will take several parts to get across my understanding of why and how Christianity needs to ADVANCE to make its rightful contribution Our Country and a world that need to pay attention to the message that the Nazarene delivered – 2,000 years ago. In the 21st century Prosperity is increasing for more and more people in countries all around the world. Prosperity brings comfort and leisure and – lazinesss, self-importance and self-satisfaction. There is little need now to bother with talk of ultimate things since we are on easy street forever! But reality for We the People is still one of life and death. Those who take a casual attitude about it are wrong. Life comes with an ‘intimation’ that commands our attention and consideration in an ultimate way. There is something Good about our existence and Christianity is right on target to bring the Truth of that Goodness directly to anybody who hears the Nazarene.

Some thoughts to consider, at length.

A.  What do Christians (or any religious people) know ? What is it about their world view, reality view, mind-set, that establishes them as religious?

B.  What is it about non-religious people, what do they know, that gives them their mechanist world view, reality view, mind-set?

A.  What is the sense, intimation, awareness, conviction, apprehension or comprehension, belief or feeling that leads religious people to a determination that there is something more to what we experience on this planet, in our lives, than just substantial, physical, mechanical, tactile  THINGS?

B.   What is the satisfaction of direct, immediate world reality that non-religious people have that makes them at ease with a mechanistic appreciation, grasp, understanding of the world and reality we are in?

A.  Christian religion is for people who ‘catch on’ , those who are personally aware that our reality has an ultimate characteristic and for us ultimacy is caring about the Truth of Goodness for all reality, and for each person individually and all humanity. Christians ‘get’ the sure Righteousness of a concern for and understanding of Goodness as the ultimate Truth that happens each day and abides always.

B.   Non-religious people, those who ‘get’ the plain fact reality of their personal situation and the world and universe around them have no need for any religious belief postulate. They see the plain facts of the Real we are in extend everywhere and through all time. They look askance at people who get into ‘spiritual mode’ with intense exertions at believing and worshiping. Non-religious people do not need to clutter their lives with the dazzle of hopeful ‘sightings’ of spiritual events or characters.

So we have group A, those people for whom a personal ‘knowing’ of an ultimate Goodness is the essential fact of life. That knowing includes everything the Supreme Creator has set up, the universe we are in, the planet on which we live and are agents of Goodness – responsible for getting with the Program.

And we also have group B, those plain, straight forward people who are ‘tuned in’ to things, facts, numbers, our physical world and universe. They ‘get’ the simple, total ‘real world’ FACTS – first, last and always approach to life. They have no interest, concern or affinity for a personal agreement with some pervasive ultimacy in everything, including We the Sapiens.

Christians, being part of a ruled Reality THAT WORKS – is Good essentially and throughout – are ‘alert’ to the FACT that their own existence and being are Good essentially. This ‘alertness’ is a regular part of life for Christians. It is personal and not (currently) measurable in the way that we measure physical objects in our world. Those who are non-religious do not have any essential ‘alertness’ for any sort of ultimate Good. They are at ease and unperturbed with a reality that has no purpose for anything. That to them is correct understanding.

It is this Contest between people who are normally agreeable with a Reality of Goodness that we are all a part of, and those people whose allegiance is to Things with no interest in some Omnipresent ‘Good’ that is generating a lot of the social discord that we must deal with endlessly. The Contest is not new to our world. It has been going on for centuries. As technology has advanced group B have been strolling, quite sure that they are obviously right in their understanding of our world and reality. The old, quaint discipline of ‘nice’ Christianity seems to be relegated to has-been status – we all like shiny new action toys. It has gotten to the point where some people are openly attacking Christianity in crass and malicious ways. ‘Modern’ Christianity – the standard brand liberal mainline Christian denominations – is being beaten down and is trying to survive by kowtowing to our deteriorating crap culture with a disgraceful obeisance to villainy and ignorance. This is why Christianity must Upgrade. The Word, the Gospel that the Nazarene gave us is not ‘out of date’ or a relic of some bygone era. Christians need to face up to the facts on the ground. We need to deliver the Truth message DIRECTLY to people who do not respect any truth. All the intelligence We the Sapiens in this world contrive is only confirms  the Nazarene’s knowledge of Good being and living. We were not put here to be nice. We were put here to be Right.

As the old song says – somewhere, somehow something’s got to give. For now you might consider focusing and concentrating on your personal knowledge of what that Good ‘something’ present at the source of your Christian existence is.

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