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In reply to the discussion: If you don't think these people represent all Christians.... [View all]DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I am a Christian. I believe that Christ was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died on the cross for our sins, was resurrected, walked the earth for forty days, then ascended to Heaven to be with The Father, and one day will come again.
That being said, there are a lot of folks who call themselves Christians who can find justification for a lot of things you and I, my brother, would find repulsive.
I have been exposed to both extremes of Christianity. I was baptized in a Southern Baptist church whose pastor eventually led his church to break away from the Southern Baptist Convention because they were "too liberal.' Try wrapping your mind around that.
I also have been exposed to the United Church of Christ in which the church I attended had "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, neither gay nor straight,nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." on the marque..
I see on some level the motivation to say, "well they aren't really Christians" but that's not our call. David Duke , Osama bin Laden, and Meir Kahane found their inspiration in their respective religious texts. Of course you and and I would argue they used the text and ignored the context.