This Billboard Explains Why I am not a Church Goer [View all]
In big letters on a major freeway:
"Hate what is evil. Cling to what is good."
If the pastor had started the quote with the usual first line---"Love must be sincere..."---then it would have been a message about love. But instead there is a great big message stretched out across the horizon telling us to "HATE"--at a time when too many of us are already toting guns and looking around for someone to hate on---permanently.
The last thing we need is Churches reinforcing the hate message. And the dualism of those two lines taken out of context are scary. How much are we supposed to hate what is evil? How far do we go to prop up what we are told is good?
This billboard has me so angry that if I happened to be a church goer, I would probably give up church for Lent.
Mystical experience is an important part of human life. So is faith. But thank the Founders we have laws to protect us against state sponsored religion.
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