Runs with scissors

My faith in "christianity" has been shaken over the past five years. Even before the orange nightmare and the "christian" ultra right staged a coup on democracy and true Christianity. I posted several years ago about my supposed Christian friends attacking me for my personal beliefs because they felt my beliefs were an attack on them personally. (Just try and follow that logic). But yesterday my church fired the lead pastor for his "progressive" teaching. As far as I can tell, his progressive teaching included advocating love and acceptance of non-straight people. He has preached in the past two months about accepting transgender and gay people and loving them as children of God, made in God's image. Honestly, his sermons were the one thing that helped me hang onto my faith. The elders haven't released a statement beyond claiming he was too progressive for them. They did this in the middle of the week without consulting the congregation.

This is everything I hate about current "christianity". These are the people who claim christianity is under attack, that this "christian" nation is in a downward spiral. That God advocates separating families and attacking people who look, act, or believe differently than white conservative "christians".

They are not Christ followers. They use the Bible as a bludgeon and woe to anyone who disagrees with them or points out the fallacy of scripture. I was planning to take a break from church, spend forty days in the wilderness, if you will, studying and communing with God. My faith has been tested, and now it is shaken.

Given the openly loving and accepting nature of the lead pastor's messages I thought that my church would weather this attack on Christ followers from the right. But now I don't know.