Passing the Buck To Jesus, Joyfully

AMONG THE MOST SACRED of american core values is the belief in personal responsibility. We instill it in our children, or think we should. Be accountable for your own actions. Accept the consequences of your own behavior, and never assign blame for it to others. Stand tall, be self sufficient, and by all means do not unfairly rely on people who are more successful than you, or envy their success. Make your own luck. Basic, traditional conservative values. So, why, in the name of philosophical consistency, do these same conservative traditional Americans with their traditional values not only allow a good man to be tortured to death as atonement for their sins,, but rejoice in it, glorify it, celebrate it?Why accept this help, rather than proudly refusing it, and accepting the full consequences of bad personal behavior? The very same people, conservatives, who most fervently preach the doctrine of individual accountability rejoice the loudest that Christ died on the cross for the sins only of those who accept him as their personal savior, for those who most eagerly accept his gloriously taking on the burden of their, not his, mistakes. Salvation for a sinner, willingly, voluntarily received, by the death of a better man than they. How can this be construed any other way than as a a complete abrogation of responsibility by people who in general preach that we should look after ourselves, and not punish others by relying on them? Is this not hiding behind somebody else's hard work, mooching off an achiever, taking from the successful in return for nothing but a declaration of devotion, an act of sheer cowardice? since Christ rose from the dead three days after his brutal, torturous death, for him the act was but a temporary inconvenience mere theater, and its power of salvation for believers becomes nothing but symbolism. surely, to pay for a lifetime of sin, a good Conservative christian should be willing to die for three days, then awaken to an eternal life of glory in heaven with the lord, rather than happily letting someone else do it. it all seems senseless n another important way. we all teach ourselves that what we sow is what we reap, what goes around comes around, here in this lifetime, so why must we pay for our mistakes twice, first by enduring the consequences of our actions of this life in this lifetime, then, all over again, by enduring death, only this time someone else's death, rather than our own? A twisted confusion of shadowy, primitive, barbaric doctrines. A double payment, the last half deferred in the ultimate act of irresponsible cowardice, which we celebrate by wearing around our smug necks a copy of the very weapon of torture and death we never have to endure ourselves. The stated alternative to this arrangement is for the sinner to endure eternal damnation and torment in a fiery infernal, the system devised by a God who loves us nonetheless so very much. what could possibly be more reasonable, sane, or in keeping with the logical order of the universe, the laws of nature and nature's god? Damned near anything, one might think.........The quite logical views expressed in the above are the author's, and do not represent either the ownership or management of this website, or any of the numerous sub species within the very diverse denominations and highly differentiated interpretations of the multifaceted Christian religion..........DIVERSITY "TRUMPS" MINDLESS CONFORMITY, ESPECIALLY IN RELIGION AND POLITICS. PLEASE SHARE THIS WEBSITE WITH AT LEAST ONE OTHER PERSON! THANKS!