More Monkey Town

I'm almost done rereading Monkey Town. Rachel has a lot of good points, but one in particular, that I've thought about too, is how selective Christianity today seems to be on what are the big sins. Just the idea of there being "big" and "little" sins is problematic anyway, but there clearly are ones the Christian community and/or the news seems to fixate on. I would say abortion and homosexuality top the list. However, there really isn't a lot about either topic in the Bible, yet those are the headline grabbers. There are a lot of things the Bible says we shouldn't do. Why do those two seem to be the focus?

As Rachel points out,

I imagine an alternate universe in which Christians have chosen a different biblical condemnation upon which to fixate, such as women uncovering their heads or people getting tattoos. I imagine TV preachers claiming that 9/11 happened as a result of God's wrath on the gossipers and the greedy, and churches raising funds to support an amendment to the constitution making remarriage illegal for people who are divorced. I imagine people carrying signs that say "God Hates Gluttons" or "Stone Disobedient Children", and I think to myself, Boy I'm glad we didn't pick "lifestyle sins" like materialism or judgmentalism to obsess about, because if we had, I'd totally be screwed.

Amen, Rachel.