Monakhos

I’ve been gone a long time. It’s happened before, but usually just for a month. There’s been plenty going on (for example RockOm launched finally) I just haven’t had much to say that belongs on this blog.

I’ve been feeling bitter recently. Especially towards Christianity/the church in general. I just can’t stand the thought of it. I guess it’s pent up frustration, etc. and I guess I blame it some for parts of my life. I don’t know. It just makes me mad.

Most recently, I’ve been getting upset that Christians seem to be stealing/repurposing the word spirituality. It’s like they so screwed up the image associated with Christian/Christianity that they had to find a new word that didn’t have the negative connotations to use. What they don’t seem to get is that no matter what word you use or how you express your faith, it’s the same religion. You can be part of a charismatic movement, or part of a church like Mosaic, but you are still all the same and I don’t want any part of it. So stop stealing my words and ruining them. If you want a word, keep Christian and fix the image. Not that you can, but there’s no need in ruining another perfectly good word.

I meant for this to be more of a happy post, but I guess it didn’t turn out that. I’ve just been a little wierd lately. Maybe I’ll come out of it.