🔥 Opening Reflection
“They profess to know God, but deny him by their deeds.”
— Titus 1:16
What happened to the Christian America the Right so proudly claims we are?
They speak of faith from pulpits and podiums… yet pass laws that let children starve, cut taxes for billionaires while slashing food aid, and criminalize poverty instead of healing it.
They preach “family values” but strip healthcare from the sick and housing from the unhoused.
Where is Jesus in this?
This is not a sermon. It’s a spiritual reckoning.
Today, we ask: What is true charity—and why did America forget it?
🕊️ I. The Way of Jesus Was Never Wealth-Friendly
Teaching: Jesus never praised the rich. He warned them. “Woe to you who are rich,” he said in Luke 6:24, “for you have already received your comfort.”
Perspective: In Gnostic and early Christian traditions, wealth was not a reward—it was a spiritual trap. It fed the ego, the demiurge within, and numbed the soul to others’ pain.
Connection: Today’s Christian Nationalists flip this message. They idolize wealth and equate it with blessing. But Jesus never blessed empire or exploitation—he overturned tables, walked among the poor, and said “What you do to the least of these, you do to me.”
Practice: Sit in silence with this question: What do I cling to that distances me from the poor? What tables in my life need to be overturned?
🌾 II. Charity Is Not a Tax Write-Off—It Is Kinship
Teaching: The word charity comes from Latin caritas, meaning love in action. Real charity isn’t pity. It’s solidarity. It’s giving from the belief that the other person is your equal.
Perspective: In an animist-Gnostic worldview, we are all kin—interconnected parts of the divine whole. When one suffers, all suffer. When one is lifted, all rise.
Connection: But in capitalist “Christian” America, charity has become PR. A branding tool. A way to appear good while maintaining unjust systems. Food drives while slashing SNAP. Mission trips while backing war. Charity as virtue signaling, not justice.
Prompt: Reflect or journal: When have I given to feel good vs. to be in relationship? How can I give in a way that honors the dignity of the other?
🪞 III. The Hypocrisy of “Christian” Policy
Teaching: Matthew 25 is clear: Jesus doesn’t ask if you believed in him—he asks if you fed the hungry, clothed the naked, welcomed the stranger.
Perspective: Today’s policies criminalize hunger, deport strangers, and shred the social safety net—all while quoting scripture. This is spiritual gaslighting.
Connection: In Gnostic thought, this is the realm of the Demiurge—false rulers who claim divine authority but serve only control. The Right’s claim to Christianity is hollow when paired with cruelty.
Charity isn’t church-run soup kitchens alone. It’s systemic justice. It’s livable wages, healthcare, safe housing, and education for all.
Jesus didn’t say “love the poor,” he said become one with them.
Example:
While billionaires receive tax breaks on their jets, the same lawmakers slash WIC programs feeding pregnant mothers. What god do they serve? Not the Christ who was born in a stable.
🌱 IV. True Charity Is Embodied Love
Teaching: To follow Jesus is to live as if every life is sacred—not just the unborn, not just the wealthy donor.
Perspective: Charity is not a seasonal act; it’s a way of being. It is inconvenient, costly, and transformative. Cannabis, when used ritually, helps dissolve the illusion of separation, reminding us we are all one breath, one body.
Connection: When we awaken through Gnosis—inner knowing—we begin to see clearly. Charity becomes less about “helping” and more about healing our shared soul.
Ritual Suggestion:
Set intention before lighting your sacred plant. Ask to be shown how you’ve been blind to others’ suffering. Let the plant slow you down. Listen. Then act.
🌍 Integration: If We Lived This Truth
Imagine a world where charity wasn’t an Instagram post but a radical, daily choice.
Where churches became sanctuaries for the unhoused.
Where billionaires wept and repented.
Where healing the poor wasn’t optional—it was the gospel.
What would change?
Everything.
✨ Closing Blessing
“May you remember that the poor are not a problem to solve, but a mirror to your soul.
May you give not to look good, but to do good.
May your hands become Christ’s hands—not folded in judgment, but open in love.”
