Dear God,
                 I wonder what how You would respond to that video..Was it perfect, hitting the point, correct? Or was it borderline offensive? Of course, everything he said about Jesus was true; he has the exact same views on Christianity as me (which makes me feel less bad about myself). But what about everything he said about the Church...I mean calling it a perfumed casket? It's an accurate analogy, but it's still rude. I believe the reasons the church today is as Orthodox as it is, are the people inside it. The clergy is aging. (Pope Francis, on the other hand, is incredibly unconventional; I have hope in him. Maybe he could call the next Vatican Council? Isn't it time for one anyway?) We need newer minds running the Church, I understand.

                     But when he says, "Religion is man searching for God, and Christianity is God searching for man," I started to disagree. Why would I not? Many has to search for God too, He (You) can't do it all. Man has to reciprocate the love of God (by man I mean human). 

                      In the end of the video, he (the guy) even quotes Romans 4:5 - 

"But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,"

To simplify this: But to he who doesn't work (is lazy, lethargic etc.) but atleast believes in Jesus, his belief makes him a good person.
          Could that be true? It doesn't seem very right. How could a bad person, who knows that he/she is bad, abuse the grace of God and get away with it? I mean, I could go to Church and absolutely adore God, but if I keep not being a good person won't I be a bad person?
         Paul's letter to the Romans confuses me greatly. Greatly.

I agree that the Church is not "a museum for good people, but a hospital for the broken." I agree that sometimes Christians are a bit judgmental, and turn up their snobby noses, but the core principals are still right. The people still have the right principals to live by; they've just never been in a position where they could be bad, and so they don't understand sinners. We must always try to look from the other person's point of view. That is why it is so hard to judge people; they are so complicated.
           Overall, the poem is beautiful and bold. It strongly, and rightly, criticizes the stereotypical church, and makes its point be known. I love it, and I love that there's someone putting his views out there today :)

Cheers.

Dear God,
                Reading the early books of the bible is like reading a story written for kids. Surely the story was simplified for the people of Israel to understand, for Moses, who wrote it, to understand.
               The lightning-quick 6 days of creation must have 6 millennia for us; the tower at Babel...I don't even know. Genesis is a series of stories written in an overly simple manner, and it often doesn't have a moral. What does the story of the Tower of Babel tell us? People mustn't be unified or they will plot bad things (that seems to be coming true....and it also explains are emphatic hatred of communism). The book seems to be explaining things that just are...like "why do people talk different languages?," or "what is the story behind the rainbow?" instead of teaching us, and instructing us through the wisdom of the ages.
               People who attack Christianity, they only find faults in this section...They obviously don't get that You told Moses the simplified version :/ that must be it.

                   It's just that the Old Testament is so different from the New Testament. The God of the Old Testament is fierce, he's scary. He's the gruff, but protective, father-type. While God in the New Testament is God The Father, the one we run to when we're in trouble, the one who pats are heads as we cry into his shoulder, the one who is undeniably (undeniably...I say it twice because I know. I just know) personified by Professor Dumbledore.
          I've always questioned that...why did You have a sudden change of heart? But then I realized that You didn't have a change of heart, we did. People started to respect those who ruled with love better than those who ruled with fear. People started to withdraw from You, and You decided to show Your real self.

The Old Testament is a bit of a mess that I can't quite understand. Besides telling us an underestimating story, it does nothing.
I hope You'll help me figure it out.

Cheers.