Reply #28: I oppose these peoples' hijacking of Christianity --

[DeepModem Mom]

Kristof has harped on this issue before, and I emailed him my disagreement. In his piece, Kristof scorns those whose "intellectual curiosity" does not extend to evangelical/fundamentalist Christianity, as it might extend to Islam. I didn't grow up with Muslims, Mr. Kristof, but I grew up with this brand of Christian, in the South. My mother, a devout, church-going Methodist, called them "religious nuts." I'm now a member of a mainstream Protestant denomination, with a history of liberal views on social issues -- a brand of Christianity, in my opinion, far truer to the original than that of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Gary Bauer, John Ashcroft, and George W. Bush.