Just came home from church and we are furious!

[1StrongBlackMan]

251. I attended a Community Church ...

here in Tucson. I met the Pastor while playing golf ... he was from West Texas and was a hard-core anti-racist.

Though I've never been a religionist, I do appreciate a good bible-based sermon regarding man's duty to look after one another. And I appreciated a church that was involved in community service, like feeding the poor, organizing health/dental care clinics, operating job banks for the unemployed. So this church was perfect for me.

I stopped going to that church on the Wednesday following 9/11, when this once tolerant Pastor spent the entire service talking about the evils of Islam ... Not radical Islam, but everything Islamic ... and used the Bible to do it. This really troubled me ... so that night, I e-mailed the Pastor about my disappointment in both him and his message. The upshot of my e-mail was: "to argue Islam is evil because some of its adherents did evil, without also condemning Christianity as evil is plain wrong. Yes, Islam has its fringe; just as christianity has the kkk ... both of which do bad stuff in the name of their respective religions."

This led to a 3 week e-mail and in-person dialogue that ended with his disinviting me from attending his church because "I obviously had no clue as to the true nature of Islam", to which I stated that he "obviously had choosen to ignore significant portions of the teachings of Christ."

That ended my Christian journey in that church.