It's not as if what we hear about Christians from the mainstream media these days paints them in a positive light. We only hear about the fanatics/lunatics like Judge Moore in Alabama, or (insert your favorite televangelist here). And plenty of us have fucked-up upbringings that were the result of extremely misguided moralism done in the name of Christianity, when I'm sure Christ would be appalled at.
But there's a good portion of Christianity that isn't misguided, deluded or perched on a moral high horse. They use Christianity as their own personal philosophy, the same way people are free to use Buddhism, Islam, atheism, Satanism, existentialism, or what-have-you-ism as their philosophies. These types of Christians don't inflict fundamentalism on others; those who have pervert everything Christ was trying to do, if you believe he walked the earth.
If Christ were around today he'd flip the bird to the religious right, and he'd probably have a couple "Live at San Quentin" albums under his belt.
Not to preach (ha ha), but it's an interesting line of discussion for me.
--Shrug
Now Doing Weddings And Irony
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