What's in a name?

Another "lost" epistle. I write to you concerning "the name" dear brothers. Some of you.. knowing how incompatible our interests are with his interests.. wish to throw off "the name".

You say you remember him and the disconcerting images...

-40 days of desert sand matted on his malnourished face....

-crawling around on all fours like a shoe salesman.. water bowls.. with filthy feet in front of him and dirty bourgeois-rags... (how unnecessary that all was).

And In the end?... His wallowing and his leaderless Garden cries.

..(he writhed and complained all night long.. but who took care of all
his constituents and his remaining 11 when I left?).

And like you.. I too can hardly believe we all nearly fell for his "way". What results do we have of those who've turned the cheek?... only to have the entire head removed.

(How silly and foolish... What a waist.!).

Agreed!.. the business at hand should be about business.. the economy.. the making of money.. and the taking back of our nation.. legislation.. morality.. the American way etc..!

(not Love). - How Impractical!

Poor leadership indeed. I agree with you brothers. He (the man himself) would never stand up in a general election. And I'm not even sure he could clear the primaries.

The problem however.. with denying the name entirely.. is that it's been around for a very long time. There are generations and generations of donors and constituents who.. though agreeing with us solidly in spirit.. still continue to swear by "the name". (You know how tradition is).. And that.. for us.. poses a problem.

That said.. I believe what appears as weakness can be turned for our strength... should we be smart about it and play it just right.

The beauty of it is that it's almost as if they don't even recognize the discrepancy of it... the absolute antithetical nature of what he said and did with what we're trying to do.

He was never really comfortable trying to force or control or manipulate people into his will.
In fact. How Ironic it is that the man who resisted absolute power at every turn now has tons of followers seemingly Hell Bent on taking over all of society, culture and government.. in his name?

For all practical purposes they're dumb to his wishes.. And that works in our favor.

Of course there are some of them who resist..

insisting on living "counter-cultural" to the ways of the world... missional.. communal.. authentic..

..blah. blah. blah.

But the masses are confident and externally? they tend to question their orthodoxy.. internally? they tend to pity them as dreamers or pie in the sky idealists.

(I call them idiots).

In truth.. it's become entirely "normal" to use the name and yet mean it more generally.. say.. more like "palatable religion".. things that tend to lend themselves to our cause.

No brothers. "Christian" is the name we're stuck with.. We are "Christians".. though.. when we say it.. we dare not mean the old things... like treating people as you wanna be treated.. self sacrifice, mercy, grace, forgiveness, reconciliation, peace, etc.

Rather... we mean.. a "Christian Coalition" to restore "America" to it's original heritage.. (and to Hell with the rest).

Don't give up brothers. Our dream is around the corner. One day we'll feel free to give up the name (and the absurdity will come to an end). But in the mean time keep focus on the things at hand. Watch The polls.. Keep up with public opinion. And above all.. keep them directed to the web sites and the talk shows and the news shows that work so tirelessly on our behalf.

They'll all be rewarded for their faithfulness one day. And remember...

Im with you in spirit.

Kisses
-Judas


day dreaming.. I suddenly awoke sitting at a red light. .. dazed and confused (Zeppelin.. not on the list) and like the wax unstripped and sticky on the base of a theatre porn floor.. I felt dirty. I considered turning east but my blinker pointed west.. and so I stretched myself out as far as east is from west (Zen) but.... I vanished.

So instead I settled on West and turned left down highway 66.. going to California" (Zeppelin not on the list). And in my minds eye.. I could see palm trees in the distance as far as the eye could see.