Where in Hell are the real Christians?

My title is appropriate as I see that we are really living in hell and the people I have seen making the headlines calling themselves Christians are making a mockery out of the person Jesus Christ himself was.

The hours, the days, the weeks, flying past me like Mario Andretti, as if life has become a rat race.
Even as I stand still, I feel the rumble of the moments flying past, see the dust kicked up as Medicare makes more cuts, and Medicaid follows suit.

Crazy to think we who work with seniors are going to actually see the wrinkled brows get a face lift from the government.  I've become so jaded with the choices made to "save" a dollar here and there, while watching the last of our real "All American Heroes" from World War II, forgotten and fallen to a place where they are no longer considered able to make this country great because they don't even remember their own names.
Yet they sit in chairs, unable to walk alone, reciting stories of their fallen brothers ripped to shreds and shrapnel as shells and mortar came crashing down around them. 

And we, have placed them in the back room so the screams of their nightmares don't disturb
the "baby-boomers" who are on our rehab halls, living it up "resort style" from knee replacements of old rugby wounds, while their fathers just home from the wars, work their fingers off in factories, making cars so the children can have a better life.

I'd be remiss not to bring up the fact that we have become a country of rot and ruin, taking God out of schools, children getting shot on playgrounds, snatched at grocery stores, raped behind the church, while we still pretend, when it will make a political statement that our country still believes in a Holy God.

We place that very statement that we trust in God on our dollar bills, yet we hate our brother/sister,
beat our children, run up our own personal debt right along side the debt of the nation while screaming at the top of our lungs we want to be free thinkers and will respect whatever we choose.

I find the new political party running for office, already smelling like a day old diaper,
left behind on the kitchen counter, while mom and dad have had to go to work.
What happens to the people who use GOD as a PAWN in the race to win the election?
What becomes of the man who makes such crude statements that scream hate at others, because
they are ignorant that not all people are the same.
We are all created equally in the image of God.
However, we differ in shape, size, height, color and even sexual orientation.
And these who so desperately need to get a white - nuckle grip to step up to the plate in office
call the homosexual community "a Threat to the Nation's health".
Okay, so now we are not only psychologically damaged, demon - possessed, but also a disease that
threatens to wipe out the country?

Please. . . Bryan Fisher, if there was/is such a thing as reincarnation, you are sure to return to this life
in a country in Africa as a flaming drag queen (where just last week a man was tortured and set on fire and burned alive because he was gay).  Your statements are so far below the belt, when you burp them out, I can smell the very flames of hell on your breath.

And even as I type this, I find myself drawn back to the young man and wife, mid - twenties
crying because they could no longer take care of his mother, who in her 50's has the diagnosis of Alzheimer's type dementia.  And I, one of many who threaten the nation's health according to Bryan Fisher (friend of Mitt Romney), hold a safe place and bring about a sense of peace just by sharing my story that is parallel to his.  It happened with my mother as well, same ages and all.  I wonder if that young man and his wife felt as if they should have received a immunization shot because they sat in the room with me. 

So called Religious political figures spit and fume on stage about their ideals on abortion (we can all see that while it is a right, it is not a good thing to have to terminate a life), yet I wonder if one of them knew their own wife was pregant with a child who would be born with a homosexual orientation, how quickly they would have her at the clinic they protested and blew up last week?  Something to think about. . . . Christian politicians. 

I ask you this all you who create a sense of piety, speaking lies around your little shell of a campaign:  When you get to stand before a Holy God, enter into the presence of the Prince of Peace, ready to accept your place beside the Crystal Sea, will you be concerned about how much money you can make by taking away Medicare and Medicaid of those who fought to give this country freedom?  Will you be concerned with my sexual orientation enough to bash my bones to smitherines?  Will you still appear in church on Sunday morning, especially during election season to 'show off' your Christ-like attitude?  Or will you just be relieved to find that God has given grace to you even though you and I and everyone else were undeserving?

This rant comes after weeks of watching the down-sizing of one of the largest senior companies due to cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, people who have been loyal for years have been layed off at the 'corporate' level because they are trying really hard to do the right thing and not compromise patient care.  That speaks volumes to me!!!!  It would seem that if those who run so hard to make a name for themselves in office might consider, downsizing their own team of make-up artists, interior designers, etc... to give a break to the seniors who made an honest days wages after returning home from wars to find there was nothing left but beans and cornbread for supper, that their sweet little brides had to go off to the factories and work until those silk-soft hands had become calloused just to keep the war efforts going.  Now we have a gazillion spoiled rotten brats who are expecting resort style living, but aren't willing to give a little to keep those who've made a real difference from ending up in what used to be referred to as "poor houses".

For those contributing to this decay of true "Christ-like" love in order to keep up appearances, SHAME ON YOU!  For those contributing to the dissection of humanitarianism in the name of Christianity. . . I look you in the eyes and say, "You say with your forked tongues from the main stream churches that you love Jesus, yet you threaten the very lives and encourage bullying of others who did not make the choice to be who they are because you don't want to be embarrassed in front of your friends.  I look you in the eyes and say, you are the very ones Jesus himself said are LUKEWARM and would be spewed from his mouth.  SHAME ON YOU!"

 This is my sermon for the week, after participating and strategizing budget plans until they squeak, working late hours in the kitchen because we are trying to keep this business of caring for others in excellent form, listening to the bark of being pushed to make the best sales calls possible so we will not be threatened when the money really falls through and there is no room left to care for those sweet people we have promised to provide for, our seniors. . . the real heroes.

If you hear what I am saying and feel this passion, send a big AMEN!  If I have stepped on your toes, take two Tylenol and call me in the morning.  If you call, be prepared that if you are still standing in the same pious position, your shins may be bruised next.  We need to pray for our leaders.  We need to pray for this country.  We really need to reflect the business of social justice and humanitarianism as Jesus did, if we are to make a difference.  However, seeing what I see from where I sit in the office each day at work, I am afraid we may be a bit too late.