Some may remember the mass suicide of followers of Jim Jones and his religious cult back in 1978 when about 900 people followed his directions to drink cyanide-laced Kool-aid to get away from doom he insisted was about to fall on them. Since then, the term “drinking the kool-aid” has come to represent people following something that is actually very dangerous because they perceive it to have high potential for rewards anyway.
I was recently in a Bible study where we were talking about how people seem to willingly follow “Christian” teachings that are actually a form of drinking the Kool-aid. Of course this happens a lot outside the realm of church as well – much of it in the name of political correctness.
Outside the church one of the biggest realms of Kool-aid drinking is gender confusion. Last time I checked, the good Lord still just made girls and boys, and we can easily check our respective bodies to see which one of those we are. But apparently the leader of the Republican party recently drank the Kool-aid because she publicly declares that her party embraces the gender confusion alphabet.
This often goes hand-in-hand with also drinking Kool-aid about racial discord and dysfunction. I don’t know of any race now that has a reputation for being sane and healthy. If you are a minority, you are automatically victimized and marginalized. If you are white, you are automatically a bad person because you happened to be born as a socially and legally non-minority.
To get back to Kool-aid inside the church, how much of what we “morally” live by is really from the Bible or from what the church taught us. An example is the numerous scriptures that speak to divine healing. The disciples spoke and acted to heal people – Jesus had given them the power to do that. There have been healing services in modern times where this happened. I think that if we check, much of the power that Jesus gave the disciples, He also gave anyone who believes on Him as Savior. But most of us Christians don’t believe that is real anymore and choose to trust the medical establishment instead.
I wonder what would happen if we chose to truly believe God at His word and lived by that belief – instead of drinking all this Kool-aid all the time.
