I was comforted today...

[FreedomAngel82]

Being Sunday was church and I attend the Church of Christ. I'm not sure what majority people are in my church since I was the only person I saw last November with a bumper sticker on my car but all the young adults my age are all pro-Bush except my brother and I. My preacher always has great lessons that can be applied to our daily lives. Only twice he has preached dealing with current events. One was about how we should be a country for God and another was a fourth of July sermon about how we're lucky in this country and all that. Today my preacher talked about how we should be more caring like Christ. We should not be like the world and want an "eye for an eye" but be like him and "turn the other cheek".
Even when Christ was on the cross he didn't want revenge and when you let your anger consume you it can bring you to do horrible things. At the end he ended with talking about how we should want to give our money to those less fortuante and he was saying how some people have this whole feeling of "why should I give up my hard earned money to people?" In the college class I attend after services we talked about things that God hates and the six sins (there are seven but we touched the six). I was comforted in knowing that even if we don't get justice for all that has happened since 2000 God will. Also I forgot to mention the preacher told how we shouldn't get rid of evil with evil but instead with goodness. We shouldn't let people get away with mistreating us as people but we shouldn't do the same back because it won't help with anything and will only make them keep coming back to you etc. We should remember Matthew 26 and what Jesus did when people came after him. He should be our great example. Here are two passages that help. One is dealing with a warrior and the other are the six deadly sins. Proverbs 16:32: <32 Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city.>

Proverbs 6:16: <16 There are six things the LORD hates,
seven that are detestable to him:

17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,

18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,

19 a false witness who pours out lies
and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers. >

So whether or not we get justice for all the pain and suffering of George Bush and his neocon Nazi wannabe buddies God will give justice and I believe God is a tougher judge.

[leftchick]

1. looks like the chimperor has some splainin to do

come judgement day.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Oh yes

That's what gives me the satsifaction. Knowing that he too will have to answer his judgment call and might not get off so easy. Same with all these right wingers who lie etc.

[TheGoodCitizen]

2. What about Buddha?

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Buddha???

[TheGoodCitizen]

5. I just mean...

where are the people that don't believe in "God" suppose to find comfort?

O8)

[dweller]

6. Make yourself be a light!

Even if I were to live in the world for as long as a kalpa,
our coming together would have to end.

You should know that all things in the world are
impermanent; coming together inevitably means
parting. Do not be troubled, for this is the nature of life.
Diligently practicing right effort, you must seek
liberation immediately. Within the light of wisdom, destroy the darkness of ignorance.
Nothing is secure. Everything in this life is precarious.

Always wholeheartedly seek the way of liberation. All things in the world, whether
moving or non-moving, are characterized by disappearance and instability.

Buddha's last words, from the Parinirvana Sutra.

dp

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. You are lucky to have a preacher

who seems to understand what life is all about and what is important. I hope more people start to hear this message.

All of the major religions have some version of the golden rule, do unto other has you have done unto yourself. Now if only more people would start to follow that simple rule, we could build a better world, rather then continue to destroy it.