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Firearm Obsession Stems From Fear
Guns are a pretty quick litmus test to see how faithfully many Christians are actually following the teachings of Jesus. Because the anxiety people feel at the thought of not having a gun usually isn’t about “wisdom” or “preparedness.” It’s fear. It’s our demand for control. It’s the mind running endless what if scenarios, wild,…
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MAGA Jesus: American Fascism Wrapped in a Flag and Carrying a Cross
The Counterfeit Christ: How Right Wing American Christianity Lost Its Way Let me be direct about what has happened: the modern American right has not experienced a genuine return to Christianity. Instead, it has appropriated the name of Jesus and grafted it onto a political identity with all the thoughtfulness of someone affixing a bumper…
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Letting Go of Fear, Anxiety and Control
An identical teaching exists in both what Jesus and Buddhism taught, and the instruction to let go of all fear and identification with our false ego selves. Obviously easier said than done. It’s not something one can simply claim to let go of and then it suddenly disappears, although it is helpful to ask the…
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The Post Jesus Contamination of Christianity
There should be a willingness to abandon any teaching, whether it came before Jesus or was added after him, that violates what Jesus actually taught. That means letting go of certain biblical interpretations that many people have clung to as the literal word of God their entire lives, even when those teachings can’t honestly stand…
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Nobody Is Born a Sinner: Reclaiming the Meaning Beneath the Myth
The “born a sinner” narrative found in early Judeo-Christian texts is long overdue for clarification and for being stripped of its theistic mythology and reframed into something that can be more practically understood and absorbed. It’s important to keep in mind that early religion, especially Judeo-Christian religion, relied heavily on fear as a tool. Fear…
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