Today’s post on the religion blog at DallasNews.com is this quote of the day:
“One of the things that non-Christians hate about us is how much we don’t like each other.”
- Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York and author of “The Reason for God”
This demonstrates the disconnect between evangelicals and the rest of the world. Why in the world would anyone outside of their little myopic existence care about their internal spats?
Here are a couple of the real reasons that non-christians hate christians.
First is the presumption that we hate them. For the most part folks who somehow find a way to live and love outside of the christian religion don’t hate christians. In fact we’re very content to let them do their thing. But when they start to assign motives to us and explain how we feel about any given topic it can start to grate.
Second is when they try to legislate their version of morality. It might be hard for most christians to swallow but the rest of the world doesn’t look to them for moral guidance and many of us are convinced that christianity is for the most part an amoral construction.
So, Tim, how about you work on those two shortfalls then get back to me. (Oh, was that a little irritating when I told you how to live just then? Hmm…)