Does secular society have any wrong stereotypes for Christian behavior?
I tell people I meet who aren’t Christians that Christians can be jerks too, so if it is at all possible, please forgive us and allow us that, and know that we are human, and are just trying to project our concern in the only ways we know, even though those ways are often pitifully insufficient. When as a skeptic I had bad experiences during encounters with Christians when I really wanted to know the truth and they fled from my questioning, it hurt me. But I couldn’t say, “Well, I am not going to believe Christianity is the truth because of these people”, because I realized that Christians can have any number of faults, and insensitivity is one of them. I realize that the existence of God doesn’t hinge on how someone treats me, although if people who claim to be God’s children keep on treating you badly, you do begin to wonder. If someone is a Christian he can make mistakes. He can spout an opinion and claim that it is God’s opinion, when it is not. “Everybody Loves a Holy War” on my l
