Reply #17: Typical fascist tactics - and it gives Christians bad name! be nice!

[FirstLight]

They use the religion and patriotism as a unifier and a smoke screen for their atrocities.


What really upsets me is that they give people of faith a bad name. I LIKE my church and its people and the love I receive from them, because they are of a like-mind & heart. I'm sure some of the older folks are conservatives, though most of my church is very liberal, even about gay marriage and pagan beliefs. But that doesn't stop them from helping the hungry and caring for one another.

It is hard sometimes to engage in any discussion here at DU about Christianity because of the anger and bitterness towards the christian faith that is demonstrated by posters. I had a hard time reconciling that the peo
ple who believed in christ and trying to live up to that behavior & belief in LOVE, could also be responsible for things like the inquisition and the crusades and our current wars on muslims and gays and people of race...

BUT I found that the reconciliation had to come from my own relationship to Spirit and how that made me a beter person.

So please, be easy on the "fucking christian" comments, because some of us are just trying to love one another, here!