I had no intention of going here on this day but I am disturbed. I just came from church a while ago and once I walked outside of the sanctity of those doors I walked right back smack into the real world. At least the one that exists in the United States of America, which from what I see is more and more the Divided States of America. You know who I’m crediting with this division? The Christian Right.

I’m a person of faith, raised in the A.M.E. church.  A person who’s story is not uncommon. Once out from under the thumb of mom and dad, experimented. Looked at other faiths, didn’t practice anything at all and came full circle back to the faith of my youth, this time as a Baptist.  The circle that I arrived in that once seemed so beautiful and so full of love and peace upon my return to the fold or flock so to speak has become quite unsettling, remarkably disappointing and increasing vile and absurd.  The faith community specifically Christians are up in arms right now (as you know some literally so).  These Christians, the one’s whose claim is that Jesus is their Lord and Savior who died on the cross and rose again for their sins are some of the most faithless, evil and divisive folks I have ever seen.  These people don’t represent me; they embarrass, repel and appall me with this unseemly behavior, which is the outward of expression of what they really believe. You know the ones I’m talking about, the ones who don’t want their kids to be “indoctrinated” by the President of the United States by watching a web message to them which in essence speaks on the things that most parents talk about, stay in school, get good grades, work hard, stay focused and you can be a great contributor to society. These disrespectful people don’t represent me, nor do they represent Jesus, who looked more like Barack Obama than he did Glenn Beck by the way.  Oh yeah these same people are the ones who don’t want healthcare for all Americans and they want “their America” back from the abyss of socialism in which this President is about to take us.  What’s especially crazy about this is that Jesus, the name they call on, was a SOCIALIST.  He fed EVERYONE; the wealth shared with him was given to the poor, the widowed, the downtrodden and the otherwise outcasts of society.  His calling, his ethnic background did not get in the way of his doing the right thing for the people who needed it most.  This lesson, this essence of Jesus has been lost on the BIBLE thumping hate-mongers that have infiltrated ALL media. I say to myself surely GOD must be disappointed in what He sees, surely he must be, but I also believe that He knows that it would all come down to this.  The essence of humaneness is selfishness and self-preservation. God isn’t about that, Jesus isn’t about that.

As such this is a difficult time for the faith community and here I mean all faiths. Those who believe in a higher power, those who believe in self, those who believe in science because humans are showing their card right now and it’s not a card of love or peace or justice or freedom.  These are difficult times for a rebelleft Christian like me, who doesn’t believe in the dogma, doesn’t subscribe to the murmurings of the fundamentalists and in fact is probably so far left politically that I’m about to fall off the cliff.  That said I am as the old folks used to say “yet holding on”. My hope out of all of this mess is that those selfish cards can be put away, maybe even destroyed to never appear again.  My wish is that all of this foolishness would stop and that the purest part of each of us can come together to make it right, level the playing field and make it possible for all to prosper.  I’m “yet holding on” and asking you to help me.