Real religion
Sven wrote today about how our religion, if it claims to be based on the Bible, must look to the Bible’s values. The real values, not the ones we are told that it teaches. Which reminded me of the prophet Amos. Translation can sap the life out of the text, so here it is in a form you might not be familiar with.
God says, “Can’t stand your religion – it turns my stomach. I detest your meetings. Yeah, fine, you bring me your offerings by the book, but I’ll throw them back in your smug faces. You bring me your peace offerings, but they mean nothing; so I’ll ignore them. Oh, and your songs: just shut up: they’re doing my head in! If I hear one more tambourine, I’m going to scream. What I want to hear is the roaring river of justice sweeping through your towns. What I want is for the right things you do to wash away the dry, hard, crusted build-up of evil.”
(Amos 5:21-24, from The Street Bible.)
pax et bonum
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