Non-religious religion

I don't want to be affiliated with a religion. Religion is about politics. About stereotypes and connotations. When one identifies oneself as a Christian, it implies that they are conservative, republican, pro-life, teetotalling, anti-hippie, self-righteous, and a whole slough of things that may or may not be true about the person in question, but have very little to do with the actual meaning of the word "Christian". I don't remember if I've said this before, but I don't call myself a Christian anymore for that very reason. Christianity, purely as a word, is no longer about Christ. I am a bond-slave of the Messiah, to use Paul's words. I am a Follower of Christ. I am a servant of Yahweh, the one true God.

Wow. You know how when you read a word over and over it stops even looking like a word, and you keep thinking you misspelled it? I've reached that point with the word "Christianity." It seems like it has too many consonants at the beginning, doesn't it?

Political correctness is overrated. The whole idea behind it is not to offend anyone, not to say anything that might possibly be taken the wrong way. That's fine as far as it goes, but there's a point at which it just becomes absurd. Don't get me wrong, I'm as much a fan of equal rights and all that jazz as anyone, but when it comes to beliefs, we Followers of Christ are kind of left out in the cold. More or less every other belief has in its roots a sort of "Well, we can still be friends. We believe almost the same thing," which really just doesn't jive with Jesus's whole "The way, the truth and the life" mantra. He really didn't leave any room for negotiation or compromises. He's not a way. He is the exclusive truth. Any other kind of truth isn't much of a truth at all, comparitively speaking. It's undiluted and uncompromising, like strong black coffee, but beautiful instead of mildly revolting when it gets cold. That's why we bond-slaves of the Messiah are always left out theologically. Socially, it's because of the connotations Christianity has earned itself over the centuries.

I haven't posted in some time since I have been trying to articulate a complex thought about the nature of evil. If I can figure out how to get it past the "glimmer of an idea" stage and into the "fully formed thought and articulated part of my philosophy" stage, you'll probably see something about it before too much longer.