Of course you mean there should be only one denomination.

There only is one Church -- the Christ-body -- and it includes all Christians everywhere.

At any rate, it is an excellently-produced-and-presented video of a well-written poem.

i love this video... it gave me a lot to think about and contemplate.

the part i really identified with though was when he said

'the church builds fantastic buildings, but fails to feed the poor.'

EXACTLY.  EXACTLY. 

AYE - MEN.

De nomination ... the unnaming of God?

Now there's an anonymous state ... like a dead thought! The realm of the unthunk heros a silent form of Eros ... sort of plate O'nyx ... flate out dark state in the pool? Moral state of humanity ... in the sans ... that without? Chaos of intelligence leaves us with an unwise idealism ... suggesting there must be another side to this odd phun ... a bit of holy satire? That holy being aesthete ... being in awe of something missing ... a emotion to die for ...

Christian folk getting it together! Is this possible in an enlightened sense of intellect that's out-there to the emotional gods of Furies ... the Fate of mortal confinement until we learn something of worth for the mortal Cos ...

Takes a lifetime to learn for an astral particle, perhaps moor ...

Then, there they are gone; like they say nothing tuit, unseen until it's abstract ... with something partly missing ... perhaps you've had that feeling? With giggle over nothing you know you hit a peak ... downhill from there ...? Mountaign ist passé ...

The church did away with that bunch near 2000 yeasr ago and then again in the 1300's the Cathar's were a wash with love to know what the Roman Empire didn't wish eM to ... the end of an extended mind or bigger thought in a mortal passionate dimension? Not a clew ... a string to draw upon to play a song of sect's pense ... aware intercoarse ... that's ruagh ... sometimes pronounciated as Ruff, or general Ruth as Love of the extended kind ... fugally expressed as cool ... bi shafor ... chaff it a bit like stew art in a Jar ... mixed blessings ... a balanced anonymous thing we call dae mons, or perhaps demined ... released from de pith's ... like the meat of a nut. This world is insane, just look out there ... the other side ... typed as imaginary, or abstract ... thinking?

What would happen if it were all placed in verse order: upside down, backward and inside out ... totally reci[rocal as eccos? Would that confine the thought from emotional critters? Seems to work ... to hide the myth ... as Torah of Crete ... hommoe of the gentile Cretian of boule? Another legge of the gam ... or is that rhetorical ...

mc...

the guy standing in front of an expensive altar talking about why religion is great??

sorry.  i can say with certainty that there are homeless people on the streets, while this guy is standing there in comfort, discussing a jesus who would NEVER endorse something like that.

he attempts to give it validity by talking about the last supper, which catholics celebrate, some daily. 

what he doesn't see is that YOU DON'T NEED THE FANCY CHURCH TO DO IT IN.

christ never said that... that you needed to have a fancy place in order to celebrate the eucharist.  heck, he had the last supper in a room he'd rented.  why aren't we all following THAT example literally???!!?!

he can't see the forest for the trees.  what kind of disconnect has to happen for a man to proclaim himself a follower of jesus, yet be able to look at the homeless and NOT SEE that there is so much he could do to help them!?!?!?

GAH.

i remember growing up in the catholic church, and asking why, if the church is there for the people, they have to lock the doors when the priest leaves?

the response was that there are things in there that would get stolen. 

so i asked why we have THINGS that we need to protect in the building, then??

at which point i was patted on the head and walked away from.

as the guy in the origional video said... christ wouldn't be allowed in to the churches.  christ doesn't just need shelter on sunday morning... if christ came to those churches, he wouldn't be able to get in because the door is locked.

what about them? there all in the grave,

Not Jesus 

Hi blackbelt  your quote-- Jesus is the only way period 

 TO THAT !

Wow that was amazing Bud. Thanks for posting!

Not to Jesus it is'nt, nore To the Creator or to millions of Christians around the world or to me, 

but to you and others yes i guess it is 

Hi Geo-- I liked your  rap vid. --But I don't like comeing down to hard on churchs. In the end churchs are made up by those who attend them.In most casses I'v found them to be good people ,who for one reason or not , have lost there way a littel. When a man or women put on a gowen and step forward to help others . Does that make them less of a Brother or Sister?So it may be a little like that saying goes. Rather than curse the dark , Try lighting a candle. Maybe ask a Minister if (you) can help, treat them as Brothers and Sisters  as what they are.Think of any one you meet , that walks with Christ Jesus as Brothers and Sisters, and show Love.If you want to show Love to Jesus. The next person in the world you meet , go ahead .Jesus is watching.

Hi Blackbelt  nice to see you again Brother.---------------------------------------------------------Hi Mikepaterson I hope life finds you well--------------------------------------------------------

Airclean: Jesus certainly offers a path to Truth. I just don't get the exclusivity and arrogance of some people who see his teachings as justification for narrow sectarian exclusivism. We each have to traed our own path through life; life is too short to judge people for the way they're trying to make the path they're on work for them.

Don't start wimpering, Black belt: It doesn't suit you.

Jesus taught that his way was a journey to truth, in truth… everbody, he reportedly said, had to undertake such a journey. Christ's teaching was not to make an imovable fortress of one;s faith, but to love: love god and love others… the fortress mentality rejects both great loves in favor of the personal delusion of being "right" while everyone else id "wrong": as a result there is not one church but hundreds upon hundreds. As million of closed minds about what other paths — including nature, the creation itself — can teach us.

Hi Blackbelt -- You can answer for me anytime you like Brother.

so, if jesus is the 'one truth', why do all the christians seem to be about going to church?? 

i've seen athiests who are more christ like than any christian... i've seen athiests fight for the oppressed in society to the point where their lives were on the line.

i've seen muslims stand up to terrorists, and put their very lives on the line trying to protect minorities in their society.

of the christians i hear that ARE fighting for minority rights, they are the ones that tend to be in churches that most other christians call 'bad' or 'wrong' or 'not following gods laws'.

can you explain that to me, blackbelt??  because the christians that i am seeing right now, the ones that people stand up and cheer and say what great role models they are for jesus... newt gingrich, rick santorum, sarah palin, stephen harper, rick perry... don't really inspire me to be a better person as much as someone like ghandi does.  and he was hindu. 

although, apparently he did say that 'i like your christ, i do not like your christians.  your christians are so unlike your christ'.  which is pretty much what the origional video was saying, i guess...

then give him a brownie cookie 

Theirs a new one the professors are going to love 

Truth based on actions LOL

explain please??

Hi Sighs-- I gusse you won't like my post ither. Is it not funny, I always thought to be call Christian you had to follow Christ . Now I find out I could follow gahndi?

Hi Sighs-----Sighs Wrote-----

i'm a follower of christ as well.

however, i am not an atonement theologist, and i don't believe that the crucifixion of jesus had anything to do with a bloodthirsty god demanding a human be tortured and murdered to appease him...----------------------------------------------------------------------------------You can Believe what ever you want , It dose not make it right.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------But now I begin to see why you post some of things you do. ----------------------------------------------There is another person who would like to see the cross gone as well.But you  or mike, or anyone else will not move it.That you want the world to sett , and sing together is fine , Ofcouse it has to be your tune.I don't mind you being a Mulim--or Jew---or for that matter any relgion you would like.I not going to tell you what to believe in you faith or how.I may tell you I think your wrong but thats your choice. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------But once you say I'm a christain now we can talk .So let me see you said.-----------------believe that jesus died to show us the way to god... that if we want to have eternal life with god, we have to walk the path that jesus showed us.  i believe that jesus' LIFE was more important than his death.  i believe that his example to us, that if we fight for the poor, the sick, the marginalized, to the point where we place OUR LIVES ON THE LINE TO PROTECT THEM, we will NOT DIE.  WE WILL LIVE FOREVER!!

HALLELUJAH!!----------------------------So you think that what you do on this earth is worth more than one drop of Jesus Blood?and God will for give you because your such a good person? Your a sinner, if Christ don't save you your lost.He is the only one that had no sin. You don"t get save by works . You are saved by Grace.Get a new Bible and read it.

i don't know what you have to do to be called a christian these days, airclean...  i have seen people call themselves christian, and then torture and murder someone they don't agree with.  i have seen people call themselves christian and then scream at someone because they don't agree with who they fall in love with.  i have seen people call themselves christian, and then tell a child it is their own fault that they are too hungry to learn anything at school, and proceed to take away the services that might help them.

and i have watched people who call themselves christian applaud and cheer these behaviours, and hold these people up as role models for true christians everywhere.

where did jesus DO THAT?? 

airclean, imho you should't worry about who calls themselves christian and who doesn't.  you need to look at what they do, rather than what they say.  look at the current slate of GOP candidates... they all call themselves christian.  but if they didn't keep TELLING YOU, over and over, that they are christian, i don't think that you would even associate anything close to jesus in those people... same with stephen harper.  he calls himself christian, but if he didn't tell you he was christian, you wouldn't have a clue he was even religious, let alone a follower of jesus.

Hi airclean33   Your Quote   You are saved by Grace.Get a new Bible and read it.

Amen to that ---Good works will not get us to heaven .Going to church won't make us righteous but righteous people go to church. Helping the poor --and hungry ---serving in the soup kitchen --serving on committees in the church etc --etc  will not make you right with God --According to God's word you need to ACCEPT CHRIST --which engages The Holy Spirit to be re connected to God who is spirit ---Until we do that we are away from God ----we can believe that Good works will connect us but that is not what The Bible says --Satan wants us to believe that our Good works will be good enough to connect us to God and Heaven --he wants us duped.

Religion is man made ---we can become born again at home we don't need religion or to be in a church to accept Christ and be spiritually reborn which makes us right standing ( righteous ) with God --- 

Ephesians 2:8-9

This is as it is according to God's word -----Unless of course you don't believe The Bible --God's word.---Peace

Yes, yes, of course, but Baptists are His favourites.

i have seen this as well, and it always gives me hope for the world... i wish that society would hold these people up as christians, rather than the ones we see now.  kinda like how the only muslims we tend to see are the ones burning flags and screaming, i guess.  they are no more symbols of thier religion than sarah palin is of christianity.

personally, i think that is why we are seeing people turning away from religion... it seems rather hypocritical to say that you follow this jesus guy if the moment you walk out of the church you go to a rally to stop same sex marriage and vote to cut the social safety net.  we have all these people loudly proclaiming they are christian, and that we live in a christian country, yet we have homelessness.  we have a pope - a man who CLAIMS TO BE THE VOICE OF GOD ON EARTH - who talks about how awful the famine in africa is, yet is sitting in a chair that could probably feed a couple hundred of them for at least a month if he sold it...

really, am i the only one who is seeing the HUUUGGEE disconnect in this?!?!?