When people say "you people!"

You know someone once told me he hated Christianity because he said Christians are a bunch of self righteous, idiotic backbiting hypocrites and he also asked me to trace back to the days where the Church and Catholicism were linked to corruption.

Wow. It was a lot to hear such things, but not a lot of shock.

I remember I said with a smile that he was referring everything he said to "Christians" but what about Christ? I had asked.

"You people represent the religion. It is bad bad bad. You people preach this and that and say bla bla bla have to be so good but then why do you still go around doing evil?"

I was slightly perturbed. Why did "you people" become collective? And why did black sheep represent all sheep and at the same time the Shepherd? All sheep need the Shepherd, good or bad.

" Anyway it doesn't matter. All you Christians dramatize everything to a point it is sickening. I believe my destiny is in my hands. You people just need to believe in something great to make yourselves feel better."

Well, we can never shove things down people's throats. But there are times when humans get lost. In those times, does it mean our destinies are then slightly messed up, since we did not control them well? Afterall they were in our hands????

Anyway, Christ was sacrificed on the cross after being sold out by one of His closest people. Which means He had a hommie that bit Him and He was sent to be hung not by people of another religion but by the very people who also believed in God, His Father.

We're all sheep, we can bleat, skip and run. At some point we fall, are wounded bleat real loud for help. Being human, it's too often we look at the flaws of others and angrily dismiss the whole religion as flaky. It's not very fair but arguing that "you people" and the collective use of "you" penalizing every single person out there defies logic.

But who needs logic? I'm learning to use love, not logic. This is how I'm trying to grow up from a noisy bleating screaming lamb to be more calm and always look to my Shepherd. :)

Have a good day and a good week!