The Church and I.

Yesterday, a friend asked me why I no longer attend church on the regular and in answering her question I realized I may have fallen out of love with almost everything that makes up the physical entity we know as churches these days.

I realized I no longer want to be around people who spend more time talking about good deeds than actually doing good deeds, I no longer want to sit among a congregation that donates millions and billions to their pastors while half the parents in there can’t afford quality education , feeding, and/or shelter for themselves and their children. I no longer want to sit and pally up with people who judge and condemn others based on who they choose to love and the type of sex they choose to have, what they choose to wear or merely having the effrontery to belong to a different denomination or religion.

I no longer want to hear sermons from people who got filthy rich off the back of offerings and tithes and then built schools 90% of their congregations can’t afford. Creations who are happy to be adored and receive the praise and worship meant for the creator. I’m tired of hearing sermons about how to become wealthy, how to allocate wealth, how to pay tithes and nothing about been contented, how to become a better human being, how to help one another and how to love one’s neighbors like oneself.

I don’t want to be around people who push others away from God because they commit a different sin from them, wear different types of clothes or listen to different genres of music. Petty people who snipe at each other at the slightest provocation because their pastors and priests have slightly different interpretations of the scriptures. People who say my prayers are not effective because I’m not shouting my head off and disturbing my neighbors at midnight or on top of some mountain somewhere, people who insist God won’t answer my prayers because I don’t give him/her money through them. I’m especially tired of all these people and their bull excrement. It’s a shame they dominate churches everywhere these days and there seems to be no escaping them.

 You’re probably wondering why someone would choose to stay away from people because they kinda choose to stay away from other people. Well, here is the thing; I stay away from the church in the comfort of my house which belongs to me but these churches push away the very people who own them. They forget that the church is for sinners just like hospitals are for sick people. 

Churches should welcome sinners just like hospitals welcome the sick, wounded and dying. No doctor or nurse rejects a patient because their ailment is above their level or outside their field of expertise rather they give the help they can then refer to them to better nurses, doctors and hospitals. If we are all sons and daughters of God like we claim then it makes no sense for us to push our brothers and sisters away from our parents just because we think they annoy our parents in a way that is different from the way we do. Especially since our parents love and forgive us all equally.