The Religious Behaving Badly. Here Are Some of Their Stories

A woman is sentenced to death for apostasy.

Salem witch trials and biblically justified slavery – we aren’t so far removed.

A Christian woman married to a Christian man and eight months pregnant, has been sentencedto death for apostasy – ie. for rejecting her Islamic faith. She has also been sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery as Sharia Law forbids the marriage of Muslims to Christians.

What makes it worse (if possible) is that Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was raised a Christian, by her Christian mother, and is only considered a Muslim as her absent father was one.

US Christians should rightly condemn this religious travesty. But before they get on their righteous high horse, they should consider that America isn’t so far removed from this type of religious insanity.

The traces of which exist in the unChristian treatment of gays.

Can you be gay and Christian?

Many fundamentalist churches say no-ish. They fudge the issue by welcoming those with gay “urges” who do not act on them. But practicing homosexual are kicked out of the Christian boat. Which makes no sense.

Jesus preached against the hypocrites, the sanctimonious, and the greedy. He disallowed divorce in all circumstances except a woman’s adultery. But he said nothing against gays.

So before they kick the gays out, these fundamentalist bigots should deal with the real Christian no-nos.

More Christ coming to you at the Town Hall.

The face of banal Christianity – Robin Bartlett Frazier, commissioner of Carroll County, Md.- loves to start meetings off with a prayer.

Some Christians, convinced that the country was founded as Christian country, are happy with the Supreme Court’s decision that prayers before public meetings could be specifically Christian. But they should consider that, just because you can do something , doesn’t mean you should do it.

School children forced to pledge allegiance evert day, rapidly lose any connect with the oath’s significance. How much more meaningful it would be if it was recited with pomp and ceremony ,once a semester. Familiarity breeds contempt. Christian activists risk reducing Christianity to banality.

The young turn their back on The Southern Baptist Church.

The second largest Christian denomination in the US (after Catholics) are the Southern Baptists. But they are not getting any bigger. Mainly because they can’t attract the young, The Church has identified 5 reasons – none of which touch on the actual cause.

Their real problem is that their message of exclusion and bigotry doesn’t resonate with the youth. The young have more empathy for the poor and suffering than their elders show.