I appreciate your post. I was baptized & married in the Episcopalian Church, but it was a very liberal church experience & I would be a liar if I said I go to church. I don’t. I do try ( & often fail miserably) to do good, to help out people & animals & to live a decent life. I live in a glass house, no two ways about it. But I always thought that a true Christian did not judge, they left that to God. That is why so many of these posts are just wrong.
The ironic thing is that I’m not even a big Bowie fan. I like some of his music (his soundtrack to “Cat People” w/ Nastassja Kinski I remember loving. I have loved iman forever.) I can think of some political figures that I would not weep over should they pass. I will feel sadness for their loved ones & I will refrain from disparaging them. They deserve grace as much as people I care about. I guess if this is “Christianity,” it’s a bastardized version of what I thought it was.
Thank you! I appreciate your post as well. A good friend of mine [a baptised Catholic] told me recently she rarely, if ever, attends church with her [Lutheran] husband anymore, and then stated the following [which your commentary reminded me of right away]:
“Our parents taught us it’s how you live your life everyday and how you treat people. How do they treat animals? How do they treat waitresses, clerks, etc?”
I thought it was interesting how you both mentioned people (and animals!!) .. (as I sit typing with a cat on my lap).
If you are judging that “many of these posts are wrong,” then that makes you as judgmental as those posters.