Among Us

So a well known author publicly "quits Christianity". She has had enough of Christians who are anti gay, anti feminist, anti Democrat, and anti science.

I smile.

Here we go again. Here we have Protestantism and its 33,000 denominations all over again. I don't like the way you do "my" faith and so I am going to leave you.

Are we really so pure that we can't afford to be associated with our "sinning" brothers and sisters - all those hypocrites? How pure does the group have to be before we will "own" them?

So lets assume that some groups move faster towards the Light than others. Surely, a marker that they are truly moving toward the Light would be compassion and understanding - understanding that it is only the grace of God that we are where we are - an understanding that we stand on the shoulders of all the Fundamentalists and Charismatics and Evangelicals and Pentecostals and Catholics that they are now scorning as being such hypocrites.

Oh, and what happened to . . . God loves sinners (and hypocrites) and so do I? And what happened to . . . and God dwelt "among" us? Thank God that Christ wasn't so good or so pure that He had to refrain from "owning" us.