Oppression Is Really Depressing

• Dear Evangelicals:

Ecclesiastes is pretty depressing. No, scratch that; Ecclesiastes is hugely depressing.

What's even more depressing is the way you choose, daily, to join up with the oppressors instead of siding with the oppressed.

There are other books in the Bible where God makes plain the consequences to those who cheer on the oppressors and pile on the oppressed; Jeremiah and Ezekiel come immediately to mind. Those books are depressing, too.

In Matthew 7:13-14, Jesus says:

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

If, by some weird mischance, you think siding with the oppressors counts as the narrow way (because you're perverse and stubborn like that), go on with your bad selves. It's more than likely you won't see where it gets you until you're on your deathbed.

You know the most depressing thing of all? Some of you are counting on it.