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Showing Original Post only (View all)Dear Offended Christian, from a very tired Christian [View all]
http://johnpavlovitz.com/2016/05/26/dear-offended-christian-from-a-very-tired-christian/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=John+PavlovitzDear Offended Christian,
Im terribly sorry that your feelings are hurt again. I feel badly about that. None of us likes to be criticized, so I totally get it.
I know Ive said some pretty hard words to you recently, and maybe Ive been somewhat less than cheery in my delivery, but that happens when youre tired.
And I am really tired:
Im tired of hearing you telling gay people that they cant simultaneously be both gay and Christian.
Im tired of having to explain what Transgender means to adult Christian people, who Im quite sure have Internet access and should know better by now that it isnt a guy in a dress.
Im tired of arrogant pulpit bullies who believe theyre entitled to tell people where they can pee and who they can marry and whether they really love Jesus or not.
Im tired of you regularly dispensing damnation on the queer community, and then offering empty thoughts and prayers in the face of tragedy before resuming your normal schedule.
Im tired of you being more outraged by red coffee cups and department store restrooms than by poverty and racism and gun violence and our crumbling school system.
Im tired of LGBTQ people being accused of the kind of predatory behavior that cisgender men have been exhibiting, since the man cave wasan actual cave.
Im tired of reminding you that the number of times Jesus condemned people for their gender identity or sexual orientation in the Gospelsis zero.
Im tired of having to explain to people that although I am a Christian, that Im not that type of Christian; the kind that is generous with damnation and stingy with Grace.
Im tired of LGBTQ teens cutting their forearms and jumping off buildings because theyre told by their church friends that God hates them, because their Christian parents told them, because their Christian pastors told them.
Im tired of followers of Jesus who dont seem interested in cracking open a book to see what weve learned about the brain and the body in 2,000 years, or to realize that gender identity and sexual orientation dont equal the word homosexuality in the Bible.
Im tired of all the time I have to spend undoing the damage the Church has done to queer kids and their families.
Im tired of religious folk who seem to want small government everywhere except the bedroom and bathroom.
Im tired of Scientific ignorance being treated as if its a Christian virtue.
Im tired of hearing professed Christians preach verbatim the gospel of Fox News.
Im tired of high-profile pastors blaming gay people for 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and ISIS and child obesity.
Im tired of waiting for you to show up in this world and actually show the freakin love of Jesus to people the way he did and told you to, without excuses or caveats or theological tap dancing to avoid it.
Im tired of this wasteful, fruitless, mean-spirited, unprovoked, unbiblical attack on the LGBTQ community, that is squandering so much time and life and beauty in the name of a God who is supposedly Love.
Im tired of so many people believing that Christian and bigot are synonymousand not disagreeing with them.
Im tired of a Church which seems to be so ambivalent toward the teachings and example of Jesus.
Im tired of a Christianity that is making me more and more embarrassed to be associated with it.
So I get that your feelings are hurt. I understand that youre offended, and thats not my intention.
But listen, if youre going to tell a group of people that theyre going to Hell simply for existing, and youre going to continually target those people through the Church and the Law and your social media accounts, dont get angry with me when I tell you youre being hateful and judgmental and ignorant.
It could be worse.
At least Im not damning you for all eternity.
Sincerely,
A Very Tired Christian
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