Fortune

If you don’t mind, I would like to take a moment to speak of things like: fate, bad luck, fortune (good or bad), bad juju, and stuff that really doesn’t deserve to have a word attached to it. It all comes from pagan superstition and pagans made their own gods and gave them personalities by carving trees (already on the Earth) or Stone (also, already on the Earth). Then the pagans took to murder, tribal warfare and torture etc. What medicine does a medicine man have? Smoky sage, ghosts, evil skin walkers. You can just about name your poison and one side of the brain or other will accept or reject it. It all depends on how wide your gaze is and how hoodwinked or beaten into submission, mentally or physically) you’ve from childhood.

Most of us were scared of the dark at one time or other but growing up should have healed those fears and if you attended church you learned of the Bible and what it tells us. I’ve heard all types of tales, tall or factual, concerning Christians doing this or doing that. The problem with this is that a Christian, separate from organized religions we call churches, know better than to injure or subdue people in the name of some church or other. Still, Christians are associated with churches but Jesus rejected the Hebrew “church” and did not set an organization (church) to be in force when He was gone from this Earth. He did not name or found a church but told Peter that Peter was the rock upon which I will build my church. Aramaic, Greek or Latin has church meaning slightly different things. At no time did Jesus seek out one single building to call His church. Instead, He wanted like minded adherents to His word. that was His church. This is why He stated, “Wherever two or more of you gather in my name there I will be.” Fairly simple when you listen.

A Christian does not kill although they can defend against personal threats from lawbreakers. A Christian does not force their religion on others. All of this is what churches do and the Catholic Church comes to mind. My goodness what a travesty that church performed over and over again. I left that church at fifteen when I had already been reading the Bible. Reading the Bible was frowned upon for Catholics in the 1950s. I know why.

The long and short of this is that bad juju and superstition have no place in Christianity. Prayer will suffice if done correctly. A conversation listened to by God through Jesus is the proper form to use for prayer. As Jesus Himself said, “No one comes to my Father but through me.”

For superstition one must consider the source and the source begins and ends with rather devilish overtones and should be avoided at all costs.

A little different set of thoughts that I hope you take as meant.

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