The Hip Opinion

Well we all got problems don’t we? A quick surf of the net or a newscast on TV will abundantly confirm this.

I like to ponder stuff you know? I like to try and “figure it all out”. And wonder what a “Higher Power” should be doing about all this.  He is supposed to be all powerful right? Can’t He fix this world that we humans have totally screwed up?

Or is it up to us? Religious people tend to be just trying to hold on until they get to the great by and by. Right? I mean, I have heard it said. “This is not our home, our home is in heaven”

Jesus is coming, right? Could be today! But, what if it’s not for another 50 millennia? Hey, that’s a long time.  There’s gonna be a lot of generations of people that have to try and make due until they get to heaven. Meanwhile the world get’s worse.

Big Global Problems

• Hunger and malnutrition
• Climate Change
• Conflicts
• Financial instability
• Water and Sanitation
• Subsidies and Trade Barriers
• Population/migration
• Communicable diseases
• Education
• Governance and corruption

What a list.  those are real problems.  Who is gonna fix this mess?

I have heard Bible teachers say that this “fallen world is too far gone to be fixed. It will take a complete regeneration from God to fix this. ”

Maybe. But, perhaps talking about it would help to get ideas to give the Big Guy a hand in it. Most of us have children and grandchildren right? Each of us do our part?

I’m just a middle aged hipster. I probably got a few years before I go to the pearly gates.  Perhaps, there is SOMETHING I could do to make a difference here and now. You dig?

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You ever heard this before? That Christianity is a “crutch”… It assumes that people can’t handle things on their own so they need a imaginary God to believe in that will take care of their problems for them…

 Booze and Drugs are a crutch too… People need them to get through life. Folks are just too weak to be able to handle problems on their own…They need religion or Drugs to help get through life.

 Maybe… But then the drug crutch usually has serous consequences. It ends up destroying the user and everyone in contact with them… Becoming religious usually has the opposite effect. It gives hope and purpose to millions of lives.

Still people sure are skeptical of religious people… Most likely brought on by some kind of fundamental dogma imposed on them as a child. Or that’s what they claim. Or they see all the wrongdoings of some “Christian” people and assume that ALL of them are crooked.

Is Christianity a Crutch?
A belief in a higher power is most a good thing… Unless you get martyred I suppose…But then Jesus said that persecution for his sake is blessing.

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• What’s Wrong with Organized Religion?
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• Do you Understand the Parables in The Bible?

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.

What is prayer and meditation? There are many different opinions of that. Meditate on good things. Meditate on the Bible (or other spiritual texts)… Or perhaps get into a quiet room and “let yourself float” while attached to some kind of silver chord. Transcendental Meditation. Astro Travel.

Joshua 1:8

ESV /

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall
meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do
according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way
prosperous, and then you will have good success.

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• Top 10 Worldly Problems. Solutions?
• Is Christianity a Crutch?
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