I am no saint and am full of faults and prejudices of my own but there are some kinds of Christians I find embarrassing and who give Christianity a bad name. Among them are:
Christians who support a man who gleefully puts kids in cages at the Mexico border.
Christians who (quietly) support the burning down of hotels designated as reception centres for refugees.
Christians who use the cloak of clericalism to nakedly climb the hierarchical ladder.
Christians who refuse to receive holy communion from a person of colour.
Christians who use their position of trust to use and abuse the weak and vulnerable and those who cover up for them.
Christians who greedily exploit and denude the environment, or treat it with reckless abandonment.
Christians who blame those who are gay for sexual abuse in the church.
Christians who want nothing to do with Christians of other denominations.
Christians who disown a family member simply because he/she is gay (even though God created everyone in God’s own image and likeness).
Christians who send gay teens to special camps to undergo so-called ‘conversion therapy.’
Christians who advocate erecting walls and barriers between nations and peoples rather than building bridges.
Christians who, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, continue to deny the reality of man-made climate change.
Christians who are repulsed by transgender people, even though they have no idea about the life-long pain and trauma transgender people go through.
Christians who agitate about some pro-life issues while studiously ignoring others.
Christians who confidentially tell you that they just hate having all those foreigners around. (Who knows what diseases they might have?)
Christians who vociferously attack the current pope while tolerating no criticism of his immediate predecessors.
Christians who anonymously report or delate other Christians to those in authority for not being, in their view, sufficiently orthodox.
When Christianity is not about love, then it is about nothing.
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