The Entrenched Culture of Corruption

THE MEASURE OF A CHRISTIAN What is a Christian? This question is considered by many Christians at some point in their lives. I have, on more than one occasion, usually after being accused by false Christians of not being a Christian because I refuse to conceal and enable their hypocrisy. So what is a Christian? Most people think it is someone who believes in Jesus Christ and/or believes that Jesus Christ died for our sins so that we might be forgiven and so repair the rift between ourselves and God. This is correct only on a surface level. Jesus Christ died for us as an example of the love God has and the sacrifice He willingly made so that we could be reunited with Him, but despite the idiotic drivel of too many fools, God’s love is not unconditional: He expects something in return. What, then, is a Christian? A Christian is somebody who not only accepts that Jesus Christ lived and died to pay the penalty for our sins, but somebody who hears and obeys the teaching given us by ...

There are none so hated as those that may reveal the truth, be it by their words, deeds or mere existence.   This is something too many of us learn during our lives, observing what occurs in the world and from the extreme hardship of personal experience.   It has caused us to question our faith many times and despite our best efforts, the hypocrisy and injustice inflicted on so many victims has continued unabated. Worse, it has even escalated, leading many victims to become as bad as those that have harmed them. Those that bear the burden of hardships suffer all the more because they are isolated and silenced by a variety of means ranging in extremes, particularly if they try to reveal the truth. Christ was brutally tortured and then nailed to a cross, Stephen was stoned to death, John the Baptist and Paul were beheaded, Peter was crucified upside down, and in more modern times, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, Martin Luther King was murdered, and countless others have ...