Another Psychic Response to Christians -- inspired by Sherrie Dillard

(Originally Posted August 7, 2011)

I tried to re-post a beautiful article by Sherrie Dillard, "A Psychic Response to Christians", but my long-winded response was 200 characters too long, so . . . voila, another note.

People ask me, as they obviously ask Sherrie or many others, just what exactly is your personal relationship with God and how come you do something The Bible says is sooooo bad? In other words: "ARE YOU IN BED WITH SATAN" ???

Thank you, Dana Carvey, for putting the Church Lady's voice in my head :)

Here is my response:

The "Church" does not like it when you have a direct relationship with God, as they lose their "fee" -- ask a Cathar or any other sect who preached a direct relationship to God, without "benefit of clergy". What happened to them?

There also seem to be a LOT of prophets in The Bible; what exactly are they doing and HOW do the do it? Get my point?

The Christians who preach love and a direct relationship to God and Jesus through contemplation and personal experience, if they do not do this through the sanctioned path of being a monk or nun, run the risk of opening the doors to spirituality directly . . . if this happens, then there isn't a need any longer to have the "experts" explain it all -- and the Church would lose its power . . . and the political body supporting the Church would see its power eroded as well -- as it would no longer have the fear of that "undiscovered country" Hamlet speaks of so eloquently to basically scare people into doing what they "said was best".

Read the parts in The Bible with Red Letters and you'll be fine but Church "Doctrine" is really more about control than spirituality.

Suppose you lived in a small town and the best-looking boy or girl you'd ever seen moved there, and you were the previous best-looking boy or girl around, the temptation to say Bobby or Betty Sue had some dark twisted "thang" might be fairly high, for some people. Not all, of course . . . but some.

If you have power, or "position", you are often times not too keen on seeing someone take it from you.

Bottom line . . . The Church doesn't like competition.

Psychics and shamans are a threat, because they show what's behind Oz's curtain.

Here is a link to Sherrie's article: http://jenniferlshelton.com/2011/08/07/a-psychic-response-to-christians-ask-sherrie/