Crappy ideas

There’s a whole lot of crappy things out there. Enough to really bring a person down.

I can’t tell you how many stories I’ve heard from people who have shared with me their experience with really crappy churches, pastors, and theologies. When I say crappy, it’s putting it lightly. There are far too many churches, pastors, and theologies that are abusive and destructive and have caused far too much damage. These are churches, pastors, and theologies that aren’t interested in proclaiming Good News, or freeing people. Rather they are narcissistic to their core, manipulative, and destructive of people, institutions, and cultures. Those types of churches should close, those pastors should be defrocked, and those theologies should die quickly. But they persist, staying around to destroy more lives each day. I have little sympathy for those churches, pastors, and theologies.

The same can be said for partisanship. It’s extremely unhealthy and destructive. Crappy politics doesn’t give a vision of a possible future. Instead crappy politics is about smearing other people, dehumanizing people, and stinking everyone up with crappy politicians, crappy ideologies, and crappy policies. And these things are as destructive as crappy churches, pastors, and theologies. Crappy political parties deserve to be shut down, crappy politicians to be removed from any sort of influence or decision making, and crappy ideologies sent to the ash heap of history and exposed for what they were — destructive and not meant to ever be repeated.