A/C Anyone?

Is it really so difficult to show up at your scheduled time?  If you tell a customer that you will be arriving around noon, why should she wait until almost 2pm, only to call you and find out that you lost the phone number, so didn't show up?  SERIOUSLY. 

Customer service should be just that.  And I'm hot and irritable now thank you very much.  Stop making the people of the world wait for cool air and other simple services.  Damn.  Wish I would have called someone more reliable.  This is ridiculous. 

Religion

Bear with me,  this is kinda a doozie, but I'm irritated, and need to get it out.

This last weekend I was drawn into a conversation the mentioned the Greatest Enemy to God's Church.   The way I see it, the greatest enemy the Church of God can have is the people of the Church itself.  

In the name of religion, nations have been slaughtered.  In the name of God, innocent women were burned at the stakes.  Even today, the name of God is being induced to fly planes into buildings and blow people up. 

Enemy: One hostile to another.   Has anyone ever tried to tell a Christian that they were wrong in their beliefs?  Or pelted a Jehova's witness with eggs as they knocked at your door?  Or laughed openly at a Mormon?  How about talking bad about the guy who owns the corner gas station because he's Muslim?  Hmmmm......

I believe that if you profess to believe in something, as any organized religion does, that the people of that religion should stand for what the religion believes in. You can not talk like a good little christian  on Sundays, and then go out and cheat on your wife, beat your children, or any of the other atrocious things that humanity decides to do in their private lives.  Hypocrite.  

I do not profess to be a Christian, nor a Morman, nor Baptist, Lutheren, Buddahist, Taoist, or Wiccan.  I have been baptized in most of these religions, and spent the last 10 years studying the others.  Guess what Churchgoers of the world?  

THEY ARE ALL EXACTLY THE SAME.   You preach the same core values.  You raise your children to believe in the good and the righteous.  You pray while others meditate.  You believe in a divine power that hears your pleas.  You strive to love your neighbor and respect the earth.  God has come to each one you through the same stories, just a different name.  Did you miss that in all of your studies on religion?

So why then is it so easy to dismiss another view, to label someone else as the sinner, or the uninformed?  There is wisdom in the words of the bible.  "Pull the plank from your eye before trying to take the splinter out of your neighbor's eye."  Stop being ignorant of the truths that surround you daily.  Open your heart to see that most are fighting for the same higher power, we just cry out for help with different names.  

So, Yes.  The GREATEST ENEMY OF GOD'S CHURCH, IS MOST DEFINITELY THE CHURCH ITSELF.   And there is no where on this earth that has not proven this time and time again.