...your sin will stain the rug

So, this blog isn't gonna be as artistic as most of my blogs are. It's actually more of a rant. So I was talking to two of my best friends tonight, one of them is with their family down in New Orleans and she said that she visited the St. Louis Cathedral while she was there. Well, for one, I'm not Catholic. I don't know how a Catholic Church works, and to be honest I don't really care to. No offense to anyone whose Catholic. It just seems very don't come as you are, your sin might stain the carpet. But anyways, she said that there was a guy near the altar and he must of touched it or whatever and the Priest came storming out really really mad, and kicked the guy out.

And you know, that really bugs me. Instead of caring about that guy, and his soul, the Priest was too busy caring about his job of keeping the altar so pristine, clean and lovely. So many churches, no matter what the denomination, are like that. They care too much about the man made traditions. It makes me wonder if we are reading the same Bible sometimes! Didn't Jesus warn the Pharisee's and the Sanhedrin about that very thing?! So, instead of learning from Jesus many of us simply repeat the mistakes of those that Jesus openly MOCKED. I don't know about you but I don't want to be mocked by the son of God. And it's not just a Catholic problem, by any stretch of the imagination. A friend of mine on a Choir trip, who wasn't raised Baptist, was standing in the pulpit and he was gotten onto by our choir teacher who just so happens to be Baptist. Apparently the pulpit is considered sacred and Holy in the Baptist church.

How is it that we assign certain items that Jesus never mentioned in the Bible to such holy places in our minds? If you look up pulpit on dictionary.com you'll find that it means: a platform or raised structure in the church. Exactly! In the church. Not part of the church. Which is, for you bible scholars out there, the Body of Christ. Now I'm not saying we should disrespect the furnishings in a church and treat them as common. But when we start to put the furniture and all the furnishings of a church above saving a life, and when we start making people feel bad because they are "unclean" that's when, in my opinion, we start sinning! You know... I'm afraid a lot of people/churches wouldn't except Jesus today. The blood and dirt that were on his feet might stain the carpet.