What Would Jesus Do?

Some people say that they ask themselves the question, "WWJD?" or "What would Jesus do?" when they are presented by a moral dilemma. At least, we hope it is a moral or ethical question. There isn't much point in asking "WWJD?" if we are talking about buying a new car. Well, I suggest we ask "What would the Amish Do?" or "WWAD?" They have demonstrated a commitment to Christianity which makes a mockery of the commitment of the rest of us. Too many of we modern day Christian Wiseguys have created our own new, improved versions of Jesus and made an idol out of this creation. When we ask "What would Jesus Do?" we are asking "What is it we want to do?" The Amish have showed us true Christianity consists of many things, one of them being Love and Forgiveness. And this is a far cry from the Christian Wiseguys calling for people to be assassinated. A great portion of our country worships Power and Wealth and truly believes in degrading mankind. For years we have studied violence and have not been able to establish a causal relationship between the violence in the culture and explicitly violent acts. We have been asking the wrong questions, then. We have been running a 60 year experiment in hatred and violence and blood and gore and intolerance and now with school shootings running at a pace of 1 per week we are about to see how our experiment turns out. Even popular religious themes - the "Left Behind" series for example - are violent and tales of catastrophe. Not love but wrath. Not forgiveness but getting even on a metaphysical scale. Everything reeks of blood. Resist it. Resist the call of the blood. Resist the entreaty of the vampires who seek our destruction.