A while back, some pastor asked people to burn Korans in protest. Would a real Christian pastor come to the conclusion that it would be a good idea?, would real Christians obey?
In another instance, in Africa somewhere, "witches" were being burned alive, supposedly by new believers who were told they should do that by newly arrived pastors. Would real Christians teach that ?
Those are just a couple recent events that make us Christians look really bad, and that's not the real problem. They make Christianity look really bad. It is so easy for anyone, at the very least, to come to the conclusion that we are really "out of it" when it comes to dealing with real issues.
When I come accross something like that, I immediatelly ask myself: Where did this people get their ideas? Certainly NOT from the Bible.
When anything is said to be found in the Bible, everybody is much to quick to believe it unquestionably. Yet, in just those two instances, it doesn't take much study to prove them wrong.
In the case of the book burnings (of any kind, really ) , hasn't it already been established that that act accomplishes nothing?. More books can be aquired, relegating the "protest" as useless.
In the case of witch burnings, isn't it obvious that witchcraft (like any other abomination) is here to stay and that hating "the sinner" will not accomplish anything either?
I do wish people would think twice about blindly following a leader.
