The Racket.

When an Aboriginal delegation presented evidence of abuse by Christian missionaries in Australia's past to the Assembly of the Uniting Church many of the older Christians present insisted that the missionaries were good people who had good intentions.

They would not admit that they could have harmed the Aboriginal people.

This is an example of what many Christians do.

They insist that they are good people merely because they are Christians.

They may do no more than others or they may even be harming others.

But they still see themselves as good.

This is a racket.

But this self-delusion is widespread throughout the Churches.

And this is the reason that nothing ever changes.

Turn up on Sundays, toe the line and Heaven is yours.

Jesus slammed this hypocrisy and lip-service.

He said that only God is good.

The image of Christians outside of the Church is that they are morally bankrupt, even evil. 

Hate, violence, tyranny, intimidation, and war.

All these things emanate from the Churches.

But they still insist that they are good.

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