Not So Revolutionary

Something that I find somewhat ironic is the way churches views radicals in history.  The church tends to praise people like John the Baptist, Martin Luther, Joan of Arc, Jesus, and people who shook things up.  People who made radical changes.

One things I think churches forget about these people, is that at the time they went against every single thing the church stood for.  They exposed lies in the church, exposed hypocrisy, exposed all the dirty little secrets that churches have a tendency to hide.

Today if someone comes in a church and starts pointing out things that they shouldn’t be doing, the church doesn’t sit there and applaud the person.  If anything they kick them out, or at least give them the cold shoulder until they leave, then make even more rules in favor of what that person was against.

It’s ironic, the things we parade and flaunt from history we run and hide from today.  Maybe we should stop just looking at the heroes of history who pointed out huge flaws in the church of the past, and open our eyes and realize that the same problems in the church back then still thrive today and thrive even stronger.

Remember, all those heroes?  Most of them were killed….by the church. Ironic?  Maybe not.