Reply #27: They aren't the Jesus crowd. Jesus said:

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"Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them; otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven."

"And when thou prayest, thou shall not be as the hypocrites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men."

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break in and steal:"

"Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves."

Jesus hated hypocrites, and reserved his worst condemnations for them. Just like all of you good atheists, agnostics, moslems, hindus, wiccans and others hate hypocrites. I find I have more in common with people who call themselves atheists and agnostics than I do with many that call themselves christian.

If you see a so-called christian amassing a vast fortune and appearing in make-up and crocodile tears on television begging you for money, look in the scriptures, Christ talks about these people. "Inwardly they are ravening wolves." That's your Falwells and your Robertsons and your Jim and Tammies.

So yeah, I get it when a co-worker friend of mine says, "I believe in God, and I believe Jesus was his son, but I'm not a Christian."

The hypocrites among us make us feel ashamed to be Christian. Just like the Taliban make many muslims feel shame and the Nazis made many atheists ashamed. Right now it is the misnomered Christian Right that is supporting the biggest hypocrite on the planet, and it is downright embarrassing.

But blaming Christianity is like blaming Ghandi for India testing nuclear weapons. It's bullshit.