There were a few street preachers in Argyle Street in Glasgow today. You know, the ones who brandish a bible and shout loudly about how
you can be
saved. The lead of the small group—a surprisingly young looking gentleman—was busy proclaiming how morally corrupt society is today, filled as it is by people who live by the creed of "if it feels good and no one gets hurt, then it's ok". While I was puzzling over exactly what the problem with that viewpoint is, he continued that we should return to the "moral certainty of the old days".
Would those be the days when we stoned people for disobedience, I wonder? Burned them at the stake for witchcraft? Or seared them with irons for blasphemy?
Throughout all this, the placard by his side read:
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me — John 14:6
This passage, more than just about any other in the bible, highlights the "we're right, everyone else is wrong" mentality of Christianity that belies talk of unity with other religions.
I could only chuckle as I walked past.
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