As a Christian (and daughter of a minister), I'm beyond tired of performative Christians hijacking the religion and claiming it's theirs. It isn't. Have any of them even read the New Testament, the part of the Bible that talks about love, kindness, humility, and taking care of the sick and poor? They seem to truly enjoy trumpeting the idea of their religiosity versus providing actual evidence of it. Of course, as you point out, this is not new behavior. As Gandhi said (I'm paraphrasing), he liked Christ but not Christians. Sadly, that's a fair assessment.
And this is one reason I no longer attend church services, sorry to say. I miss the hymns and some of the wonderful people. I go to special services. It's sad much of "organized" religious Christianity ignores Christ's teachings.
As a Christian (and daughter of a minister), I'm beyond tired of performative Christians hijacking the religion and claiming it's theirs. It isn't. Have any of them even read the New Testament, the part of the Bible that talks about love, kindness, humility, and taking care of the sick and poor? They seem to truly enjoy trumpeting the idea of their religiosity versus providing actual evidence of it. Of course, as you point out, this is not new behavior. As Gandhi said (I'm paraphrasing), he liked Christ but not Christians. Sadly, that's a fair assessment.
And this is one reason I no longer attend church services, sorry to say. I miss the hymns and some of the wonderful people. I go to special services. It's sad much of "organized" religious Christianity ignores Christ's teachings.
Well said, thank you for resharing this piece! The theocratic-Right is a clear and present danger to democracy.