A gentle reminder

[kellinator]

There are Christians who believe in the separation of church and state.

I am one.

Please, don't assume all Christians think like the Christian Coalition.

Comments

[sambear.livejournal.com]

I won't go into the provenance of the Pledge of Allegiance, save this: if it's so frickin' important, why isn't it in the text of the Constitution, or the Declaration of Independence, or some such document? If people need me to chant the same thing over and over again to prove my loyalty to a country I love, then they need to seek psychiatric attention immediately.

Second thing is: There are many *non-Christians* out there who are real assholes, too. So, it can be said that assholiness (hee) is basically a common human trait and has nothing to do with any one specific religion or belief system. The only problem is when the "Moral Minority" becomes the poster child, the drum majors for the Christian drum and bugle corps, and leaves all the *real* Christians in the dark. I am part of the Unitarian Universalist denomination and we got Christians there who are open-minded, open-hearted, and loving and accepting to us Pagan types. I'm glad to know people who are of the religion of Jesus but not of the Church founded in his name necessarily.

But I think too often Pagans, especially, razz or insult Christians without really looking at their own kind. Ever talk to a Gardenerian Wiccan from a snooty coven? Heh! Talk about your One True Way Disease!