I have quoted the controversial theologian’s question, “Has religion in general and Christianity in particular degenerated to the level that it has become little more than a veil under which anger can be legitimatized?” repeatedly.<\/p>\n
Well, a poster child for using religion as a justification for hate and bigotry, one Jennifer LeClaire, is now wondering why Christians are turning away from the faith, but studiously ignores just how offensive she and her coreligionists can be.<\/p>\n
Well over at Patheos<\/i>, Hemant Mehta is having none of that<\/a>:<\/p>\n Sometimes, Christian journalists miss the elephant in the room with their stories. Like this one in Charisma Magazine asking \u201cWhy Are So Many Christians Turning Into Atheists?\u201d<\/span> Like I said, that\u2019s just a sampling.<\/span> To quote Abraham Lincoln, “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”<\/p>\n Ms. LeClaire, perhaps if you stopped proclaiming<\/b> your Christianity, and started demonstrating<\/b> your Christianity through good acts, people would stop being horrified what comes from your poison pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have quoted the controversial theologian’s question, “Has religion in general and Christianity in particular degenerated to the level that it has become little more than a veil under which anger can be legitimatized?” repeatedly. Well, a poster child for using religion as a justification for hate and bigotry, one Jennifer LeClaire, is now wondering …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1002,1051,1021,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-good-writing","category-hypocrisy","category-religion","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/span> \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>
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<\/span> Ah, yes\u2026 the End Times are near and we\u2019re all just fulfilling biblical prophecy. Makes perfect sense.<\/span>
<\/span> Here\u2019s another thought.<\/span>
<\/span> People are taking a look at certain brands of Christianity and realizing they want nothing whatsoever to do with it. And when they back away from one form of Christianity, they realize there\u2019s no reason to stick with the other forms of it, either.<\/span>
<\/span> For example, just look at a sampling of what LeClaire herself has written in the past couple of years:<\/span><\/p>\n\n
<\/span> There\u2019s this anti-gay, anti-reality, anti-science, conspiratorial mindset that plagues conservative Christianity. Even progressive Christians are ashamed to share a label with that group, pushing some of them to shed the \u201cChristian\u201d label despite believing in Christ\u2019s divinity.<\/span>
<\/span> \u2026\u2026\u2026
<\/span> Really, we all owe Jennifer LeClaire a thank you for answering her own question.<\/span>
<\/span> Why are so many Christians turning into atheists?<\/span>
<\/span> Because of people like her.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n