"Christian" Haters

*Note: this is NOT aimed at a generalized group of people or denomination but for the people off all denominations who fit the bill and at those who lump the rest of Christendom in with them

All I can say is that people who hate, who bully, who slander, and generalize entire groups of people, and then use the Lord Jesus Christ as their justification, do way more harm than good.

They are behaving like the Pharisees of Jesus’ time, (for those of you unfamiliar with the New Testament the Pharisees basically held to the letter of the Law of Moses and treated everyone who didn’t or who made a mistake like crap). Jesus never acted that way. In fact he hung out with tax collectors and gentiles, healed lepers who most people of the day wouldn’t even approach. He didn’t patronize them for lifestyles or behaviors he didn’t agree with, he simply taught them what they should do and moved on, leading by example more than anything else.

Christianity is rooted in God giving mankind a second chance, but no non-Christians or former Christians, or Christians who have given up are going to realize that they still have the opportunity to accept that second chance if they are judged and bullied and patronized for their past or their sexual orientation. Hatred is the opposite of Christ-like love, it doesn’t bring about change. It only breeds more hatred and damages the soul of the one who does it.

When someone sees someone and the other person is of a group that the first person has yet to encounter they become that person’s definition of that particular group. That means that as Christians, we are, literally Christ’s representatives in the world today. As his followers we need to act like it both for ourselves and so that we don’t corrupt his image in the minds of those who have never heard his word.

Matthew 5:14-16: “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”

1Timothy 4:12: “Despised not thy youth but be thou an example of the Believers in word, in conduct, in Love, in Spirit, in Faith, in Purity.

Sadly some hatred is even encouraged by some Pastors, just watch a Televangelist on TV or check out the Westboro Baptist website. I hope people realize that these people are not actually following the bible. Check this out for example:

1Tmothy 1:5-11: “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk, desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm. But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.”