My new Religion.

REM had a song that used to scare me before I found Christ. I would wonder how someone could deny their faith with so much determination as to write a song about it. I have been on a spiritual journey where there has been increasing temptations in intensity, and I think there is something useful if we look at the song and wonder why or how someone can give up on Christianity. Here are some of the reasons: There are so many things which appear unsettled, like the different denominations, the pressure to live a moral life always, the fear of hell which can make people question if they can loose their salvation once they have had their sins forgiven, strict demands of discipline by a preacher that if you are not progressing in your faith you never were really truly saved, the complication (seemingly) of the gospel message, and the lack of encouragement and condemnation from others and possibly Satan.

There are many reasons why someone who were once at peace with God, not a true statement, there are reasons why someone who thought they had peace with God to look at their life and just quit. When we fail to see the reason of the bible we fail to want to live in a way that the bible describes. I would say that it is not a matter of weakness or unwillingness to surrender your life totally to God, but the demands of a changing culture that tells us that God is irrelevant.

We have passed the stage of questioning His existence, but personally belief in God is a matter of the heart and each individual had to decide if they wanted a relationship with God or not. It is not a matter of being Jewish or any other monotheistic religion, it is a matter of whom do you fear and why? Why would somebody in their right mind decide to become religious in any form of the word? Many reasons, one it gives hope to that individual, the purpose of an afterlife, that death can be defeated, these are some of the reasons why we become religious. But Christianity says I am not a religion, I am a person, yes you will have hope and the promise of eternal life if you are changed or born again, the entrance of a right relationship with me, but I am holy I will not give you my glory, you must remain a sinner until you are made holy yourself, you must strive for perfection in this life even though you will never reach it, the older you grow, the more disappointed you might get, because well the harder this faith gets.

So knowing this why would someone write a song about loosing my religion? I feel quite fine, as a matter of fact, that's me in the corner, that me in the spotlight, trying to keep up, trying to, well keep my religion. By the way an impossible thing to do.