But their actions tell a whole different story.

I believe it was Gandhi that said " I like your Christ. I don't much like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ". I have always found that to be the case of people that proclaim to be so self-righteous.

"If you were on trial for being Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict"?

especially among younger people. They're seen as narrow, nasty, humorless, censorious, prideful, and avaricious and with no positive traits to balance all that.

The politicization of Christianity is definitely a contributor to its decline.

It's rather a shame it has come to this sorry state.

Are creating tomorrow's atheists

Done anything to change my mind at all, they have in fact proven what I have thought all along...

You believed all along they were hucksters?

I'm Australian. The US religious right and their activities during the Bush year are 99% of the reason I am not a Christian now and never will be again.

In the era of the internet, their hatred and vileness is spread throughout the world.

I'm a Christian and will remain one for my entire life. I detest the religious right. However I love the Lord Jesus Christ more than I dislike them. So I would not abandoned my faith just,because there are those that make a mockery of it.


Should be shouted from the roof tops everyday that the pledge of allegiance was written by the socialist preacher Francis Bellamy whenever the try and tell or imply that someone has to be a republican to be a Christian.

Liberal Christian churches have been losing members in much greater numbers for various reasons. Conservatives Christianity grows, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, but the narrative that liberals can tell is more honest and less manipulative. Liberals owe it their faith to tell the better story and expose a fraudulent one. People who live without faith would at least respect us more if we could tell a narrative about the world that's so close to the new humanity in Jesus that we all might for a minute forget about who's winning by random standard of decline and ascension and enjoy the process of having something that we can trust will only lose if people refuse to appreciate how much more compelling it is to follow Jesus than to love eternal life more than God.

At least to those who don't seek legitimization of their own prejudice and fear.

And the Christian Right's frequent highly-publicized displays of bigotry, narrow-mindedness, along with misrepresenting Jesus as someone who would ignore the poor, stand with the unjust and the oppressors is driving people away in droves, except those whose tribalism and bigotry has blinded them to what the Bible actually says.

Heck, a couple of my closes friends who have both been lifelong, devoted Christians find the fact that the evangelical right casted a high percentage of votes for Trump so appalling that it has shaken their faith.