Who are the "Real" Christians?
I just read an article entitled "Dear Conservatives: There are Millions of Christian Liberals and We’re A Lot More Like Jesus Than You" from the Forward Progressives website. I then read a related article entitled "10 Ways Conservatives Don't Act Like Christians" from the same site. Both upset me greatly. Yet not because I was necessarily offended as a conservative. They upset me because of the generalizations, assumptions and stereotypes that are too often used to characterized people. They upset me also because of the misinformation about Jesus and his teachings. Especially when it comes to painting Jesus as a 'I-don't-care-what-you-believe-and-I-accept-everyone-as-they-are' kind of person. Like a typical liberal might like to be painted. But that is so off base. Anyone who has read the Gospels knows that Jesus reached out to the poor and the forgotten and the neglected of his society. Yet He also called to repentance thos...