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James 5:5


You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. - James 5:5

Oddly enough, and quite frighteningly at that, Christians see this line from James, NOT as an example of the "responsibility" of stewarding the earth, as was charged by God to Adam and Eve, which we have decided can only be done by making ourselves as comfortable as possible.

No, Christians see it, like the Hebrews in the Old Testament saw it, as a call to slaughter anyone who supports gay marriage, or anything else "they" (the rabid Christians) say is "against the will of God!"


For the Christian, and even many Muslims, the only reason the world seems more and more like the days of Noah or Moses (which looks exactly like the Book of Revelations) with an increase in all of the biblical plagues and famines recorded, and with anyone warning of "a great flood" being ignored and slandered (by Christians, ironically enough) like Noah, is never EVER because of humanity's collective "self-indulgence." 

No, never!

Never mind that such "self indulgence" is leaching all of the resources out of the earth, like human vampires drinking the blood of Christ every week, which only convinces them that we can all destroy the planet because they will live forever - like a pack of vampires! - in heaven.

 And we do this,  by using ever greater technology to leach the planet of every resource it has, even though our technology for doing so is always lagging far behind what the bible condemns as the "love of money," but which Christians everywhere worship as "the profit motive."  Joel Olsteen, in other words, is our new Jesus.

And of course, to the Christian, the only person we should distrust is the "atheist" or the "liberal" who claims that maybe - just MAYBE! - we should consider an alternative to destroying our planet, which is only contributing so much war and suffering to humanity, rather than allow it all to simply 'fatten' the wealthiest wallets on the planet.  


Never mind that we have poisoned the oceans with pollution while emptying it of life by over fishing, and that we have been the direct cause of the greatest level of species extinction on the planet since the age of the dinosaurs. 

No! It's none of that. It's not us collectively that the line above is referring to.

It's gay marriage and anyone who supports it. 

Obviously.

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