A Glimmer of Hope

Evangelical Christianity, in the opinion of this writer, has largely made a mockery of itself in the incessant waging of culture wars against all the wrong things. When I consider comtemporary Christianity, I think of bigotry for homosexuals, a complete ignorance about the value of the separation of church and state, backward attitudes about human sexuality like abstinence-only sex "education", a backward distrust of science, a bloodlust for war, a total disregard for the poor and downtrodden, a deep love of guns, and the dangerous mixing of religion and jingoistic nationalism, to name a few. In short, I can think of almost nothing good about evangelical Christianity.

I don't think it always used to be that way in this country. This article in the New York Times gave me a reason to be hopeful that not all Christians are utterly insane. Check it out.