I’m not going to claim I remember any of those lessons I heard in catechism classes when I was a kid. And I’m not going to tell you that when I was a Catholic that I listened with rapt attention to the priests’ sermons every Sunday.
But I do know that the God they kept talking about was one of love and peace. I left the church about eight years ago, so tell me, when did that all change?
When was the loving and forgiving God replaced by a God of hate. When did the Bible start telling us that we should not only disagree with those who live their lives in a way that the church considers sinful, but we should also despite them, dehumanize them, and demonize them.
The Christian right always cries about their religious freedom being threatened, which is a bald-faced lie. But the truth is their idea of religious freedom is making sure their views are forced on everyone else. That no one has religious freedom but them.
The Washington Post recently ran a story titled, “Here’s what the Christian right wants from a second Trump term.”
If Donald Trump wins the presidency, the Christian right is hoping “to put their interpretation of Christianity at the center of government policy,” the Post story said. Conversely, advocates of civil, women’s, and gay rights see this as “a threat to basic freedoms and a dangerous blurring of boundaries between church and state.”
Musings of a Nobody 