Seeing Evil In Too Many Things...

I believe that we have gotten to a place where there's a certain splinter of Christianity that is out looking for evil in everything. It's as if some Christians don't trust God's love for them & believe that He has set up all sorts of roadblocks & stumbling stones on the path to Heaven in order to be able to send all but a remnant of them to hell. I worship & walk with the Jesus Who never gave up His search for the lost lamb!!!

and (my response to a pagan who was turned off by this kind of mindset and ended his comment with "Thank God I'm not a Christian!")

Thank God I am a Christian--and thank God that this kind of finding-evil-in-everything kind of mindset has absolutely nothing to do with my personal walk with Jesus! Joy and sackcloth & ashes are opposites, imo, and, to me, Christianity is about joy!!!

Ainsley Jo Phillips 

February 26, 2013 

The above comments were inspired by comments in response to a video about whether or not Halloween was an evil holiday--and the discussion that followed went even further to say that Christmas and Easter were also evil holidays, as they had their roots in pagan traditions.

Thank God, I grew up in a time when there was no heavy-duty guilt-trips such as this put onto celebrating the holidays.

It's too bad that people are being spoon-fed so much unnecessary guilt these days.

There are actually things about which people should be feeling guilty and want to change, but they get obscured by so much concentration on these frivolous guilt-trips.

Which is worse?  To dress your child up as a little skeleton and take him trick or treating? OR  To say that somebody who's so malnourished he's skeletal doesn't deserve any help because he must have gotten this way by being lazy?