Dear proclaimed Christians: How about we all treat people as if they were LOVED?
Maybe I was just naïve and gullible, but all the teaching I got in religion class when I was a youngster left me with an abiding memory of the second of the two great commandments: “love your neighbor as yourself.”
And so, if you’re asking somebody to do a job like be a nurse or pluck the chickens, it is just simply not acceptable to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the almighty dollar. So all these decisions that ended up leaving us with emergency rooms flooded with sick people, and not enough masks for the nurses or test kits before sending people home, were IMMORAL.
Now they say the meat processing factories will probably keep running even though there’s way more sick workers at them than “was initially thought.” The disgusting owners that think it’s been okay to not give them time to go to the bathroom so they can wash their hands are unfit to call themselves human, let alone Christian. Georgia governor wants to open up all these little businesses, like tattoo parlors and nail salons and massage parlors, is it because he wants to kill off some of those minimum wage workers, or just get them off the unemployment rolls??
Here’s a radical thought. I don’t even eat meat, but I LOVE those chicken factory workers, and you should too. If you don’t want your own sister or son or daughter or granny working at one of those jobs, then you ain’t treating them neighbors like the Good Book says to treat them. So don’t ever open your mouth again about what’s moral or immoral about anything ever again. Cuz you lost your standing.
Step one, in government. You gotta love everybody, and want them to be healthy, to be able to eat and to stay warm, and to be treated fairly. That’s the bare minimum job requirement. Screw your stock market, 401Ks, election chances, reputation at the country club and fear of your vengeful president.
Love your goddamn neighbor as yourself. Is that so hard?
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You want a challenge?
Add up the times Jesus talks about Heaven and compare them to the times he talks about Hell.
a place of eternal torment (Luke 16:23), of unquenchable fire (Mark 9:43), where the worm does not die (Mark 9:48), where people will gnash their teeth in anguish and regret (Matt. 13:42), and from which there is no return, even to warn loved ones (Luke 16:19–31), a place of “outer darkness” (Matt. 25:30), comparing it to a trash burning pit called “Gehenna” (Matt. 10:28).
This notion that Christianity stands for the remarkably mundane proposition of "be a decent person" is just odd. There's nothing particularly remarkable about telling people not to be assholes.
