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If God is Love, Why Are Conservative Christians So Hateful?
As a longtime Christian and former pastor, one of the most common questions I’m asked is one I often ask myself:
“Why are Conservative Christians so hateful?”
The first thing I try to help them understand (and, to remember myself) is that it wasn’t supposed to be this way.
Despite the ways those who practice it here in America might frequently declare otherwise with their lives, Christianity (embodied in the life and teachings of Jesus) was supposed to be a beautiful, joy-filling, and life-giving; a movement of compassion and mercy and forgiveness and sacrificial love.
It was supposed to be…
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