Pulse Of The Nation

This past weekend a tragedy happened when a man full of hatred opened fire on people at a gay bar named Pulse in Orlando, FL  

What is disturbing besides the obvious loss of life is the hatred of many people that claim to be Christians. Yes emphatically the Bible condemns homosexuality, but it also condemns hatred.

"Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen." 1 John 4:20

Of course he's talking about loving your fellow Christian, but I think the principle still applies.  If you say you follow God and are a Christian, why are you running around spewing hatred?

I'm in no way saying that you should condone a lifestyle you don't agree with, but acting like those people are beneath you and that God hates them is a lie and a shame.

If God hated sinners, why did Jesus hang around with tax collectors and prostitutes?  God loves everyone. He wants to draw everyone into relationship with himself. 

The Bible clearly says "God is love".  God showed the ultimate expression of love when in the form of his only son Jesus he suffered and died on a cross two-thousand years ago so that he could save some.  He knew he wouldn't save us all, we all have a free will.  But he still died for some of us.

Don't you think we should show love to those outside of our faith and beliefs and maybe that would draw them closer to God?  Spewing hatred and theology may sound lofty, but it's doing absolutely nothing to help.

Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 23:27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean."

I pray for peace, I pray for God's love to flood our land.  We don't deserve his grace, but I ask for it humbly and thank him for the almost 240 years that he has allowed this country to exist and stand.  We certainly don't deserve his love or grace but he still freely offers it.

Why All The Hate?

I seriously want to know why the media and many people bash The Final Countdown by Europe and We Built This City by Starship.  I really, really want to know. What's with all the hatred for these two songs?   

For some time there seems to be many haters of the two singles, but yet back in their day they were both huge hits in the 80s.  I can name many, many more songs that I'd rather disappear from the annals of time: Achy Breaky Heart being one of them.  But when the so-called experts made a list not too long ago of the worst songs ever, the top of the list was We Built This City.

I can understand if people that didn't grow up in the 80s would dislike either song.  They are pretty typical for the era, but that doesn't make them bad songs.

Our media-driven and social media-driven society seems to have only room for one opinion and if its not the popular one, then you obviously must be wrong.

Our society screams for diversity, but when diversity rears its head, people call for conformity.  Make up your mind society!

Is it just like the Guns N Roses album Chinese Democracy that looked like it would never be released, so it became a byword and running joke?  So is it just a running joke that these two songs are terrible, and people don't even know what they sound like enough to make their own opinion?  I have to wonder.

For me, I like both songs and would never say they are hated by me.  For you, you are free to hate both songs, that's your opinion.  But is your opinion based solely on popular opinion, or your own opinion?  Something to think about.