This is so wrong

and on so many levels.
Here is a link to a news story: link
Read the story and then head back here...


It's people like this that make it difficult for me, as a Christian, to press forward in the world. It's people like them that make it almost impossible for people to want to be saved by Jesus Christ. And then you read their press release, "Not one Senator had the backbone to stand as our Founding Fathers stood. They stood on the Gospel of Jesus Christ!" The "Founding Fathers" did not stand on the Gospel of Jesus Christ as they put it. In fact, many of them were atheists! Ben Franklin was a Deist, he said so himself:

"As to Jesus of Nazareth , my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble"
(Carl Van Doren. Benjamin Franklin. New York: The Viking Press, 1938, p. 777.)

Why would someone think that doing something such as this would change things? Did they think that automatically Senator Bob Casey would kick the Hindu priest out of the building and invite them up to pray? Here is a clip from a blog I read that puts how I feel fairly accurately and a bit sarcastically:

"It's hard to know how to even comment, since this group seems to be completely illiterate about, well, pretty much everything. Ignorance of Christian theology, constitutional law, Hinduism and American history aside, though, I love how they capitalise founding fathers. It's almost like they consider them gods. And insinuating that the world's third largest religion had raped a branch of American government was sheer tactical brilliance. And that bit about backbone and standing on the gospel of Christ? Nice play on words. Poetry really.

Still, this reminds me yet again that Christians in the US aren't concerned so much with loving their neighbour as they are with being right. Which is fine, I suppose. Pride is a fruit of the spirit, after all. Remember kids, nothing converts the heathen quite like three people behaving like complete dicks."

So, don't you see?! He says, "Christians in the US" NOT, "these types of Christians in the US". This is hard cold evidence that "Christian Extremists" are ruining the views of the Christian culture. I have met many people who choose not to even associate themselves with me when they find out I am a Christian. I have been told, like in the above mentioned blog, that short of strapping bombs to themselves, Christian fundamentalists aren't all that different from their Muslim "counterparts". And when you really get down to it, there is no difference when you take into consideration, Hitler, Eric Rudolf and other abortion clinic bombers, and the guy who intended to kill protesters at Jerry Falwell's funeral... the list goes on and on. All these people said that they were killing, destroying and pushing people down in the name of Jesus Christ. This is complete bull. The fact is, Jesus wants us to love one another. And if people don't want to be loved, then show them that you can be a well-mannered human being like everyone else. Believe me, just having a good attitude does an infinite amount of a difference. I know people who converted to Christianity because of people being kind.

If you are not a Christian and some Christians were screaming at you saying you were going to hell if you didn't convert... would you? I will tell you now.. I would most definitely not convert. I do not want to associate myself with idiots like them and I hope my friends don't either.

After reading this post, I hope you will go on with your life and love people. Love them because in today's society there is too much hate. People NEED to be loved and it helps!

Thanks for listening to me ramble, I'll go disappear again for a while...