Straight Edge & Chistianity

You hear it everywhere anymore. From the stage, from friends, Zines and e-zines. All saying you can’t be sXe and Christian. Please pick your battles, And pick battles that actually matter. I don’t even know why this is brought up. But the battle goes on. Both of these sides of the argument are normally foolish. But the one worse than the other. You see, it doesn’t matter as long as your priorities are straight. Don’t say your sXe if your going to put that above your love for Jesus Christ, and vice versa, label yourself sXe if you feel that’s a stand your called to make. I am so sick of people saying you can’t be sXe and Christian. (I used to be one of them.) That’s foolish. Straight-Edge just says to the world, I don’t do drugs, I feel it’s wrong, I won’t pollute my body and This is a issue I’m going to stand upon. Everyone wearing a X on there hand doesn’t have the mentality that if they see some one lighting up a cigarette they are going to beat them up. Maybe those wearing the X just want to be separated from the Christians, and fake Christians who light up every chance they get. Maybe there actually standing for something. ( I see so many "Christians" just except whatever comes there way saying "Oh, That’s okay, There’s forgiveness.". Remember, Acceptance of everything leaves believing in nothing.)Now don’t get me wrong. I do not claim sXe. The reason I don’t is because I caught myself before I got into it to bad. I was very pridefull, and I looked down on whoever was holding a cigarette. I finally came to the realization that what they where doing is by no means worse than me judging them, no worse than My pride and MY SIN. Plus it had become kind of like a law for me. I was bound to being good because of certain rules and not because of love for Christ. I had put the X above the cross. I wasn’t giving glory to the Lord, but I was giving glory to an X. And as far as I know, no X died on the cross for my sins. But that’s just me. I couldn’t do it. That’s not to say that other Christians can’t. Just remember to keep your focus on the Lord above everything else. Whether it be a Cigarette or a X. (Christian Straight-Edger’s Try and wear a Cross on one hand as well as your X, Non Straight-Edger’s, quit looking down on someone just because they wear a X. They may just have there priorities straight.) Christianity is about showing people love, Not about Judging them.