Why do we Pagans get Christ better than you do? Is it because we have to actually think about our religious beliefs, and you just follow your leaders like the goats you have become?
Don’t you ever read the words of your Savior? If so, how can you justify Dominionism, tax cuts for the rich, or the total disgust you display for the weak and downtrodden, the poor, the minorities?
In recent times, the so-called leaders of this nation have proven time and again that they are “goats” not “sheep” (Matthew 25:31ff). The recent tragedy on the Gulf Coast has shown them for what they truly are. They are profiteering, they are rich men, and they will not pass through the eye of that proverbial needle.
Christ calls for you to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to invite the strangers into your home, and to do this for the least of us, as you would for him. He would not approve of your complaining about the cost of relief to hurricane victims. He would not approve of your comments about “black, beached whales”, wondering why they didn’t just float out of NOLA.
Your bigotry doesn’t fit in with his “love your neighbor as yourself”, his most basic philosophy. Do you doubt the importance of this to him?
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:37ff)
Do yourselves a favor. Don’t listen to me. Don’t listen to Bill McKibben (The Christian Paradox, Harper’s Magazine). Don’t listen to anyone. If you truly want to follow Christ, to be a Christian, then go read his words. And then make them the basis of your life.
An Aging Trans Woman 
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