This is a very timely article.  I am so appalled at what passes for Christianity today.  The republican party, i.e., the powerful and the super-wealthy, have high jacked the Christian religion. This started around 30 years ago when the "prosperity doctrine" began infiltrating our mainstream Christian churches.  At the same time Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" had a resurgence in popularity, and selfishness became not only acceptable, but actually considered Christian doctrine to many. So many of the so-called Christian Right not only resent the poor and don't want to pay their taxes, and especially resent their taxes going to social programs for the needy, but they feel justified and somewhat righteous about it.  Christ told his followers to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, meaning we are to pay taxes, and he was all about helping the poor and the needy, so how is that attitude at all Christ like?

There are other attitudes among today's Christians that totally puzzle me.  A couple of my relatives "like" a Facebook page called something like "Bibles, Babies, and Guns."  I don't quite get the correlation between those subjects, except for the fact that their morality doctrine fits that title.  Modern Christians, at least many of them, claim to be pro-life; they hate abortion and will do anything to safe a fetus.  Yet if a child does manage to be born into poverty, they don't want to pay into programs that help that child, even when it comes to free school lunches, which may be the only nutrition that he/she will get all day.  When it comes to guns, every time there's an election, they start worrying that gun control is going to cause their guns to be taken away from them.  And this has never been the case.  Rules and regulations regarding guns yes, but no nazis are coming to cease our hunting rifles or home protection.  And I just don't think the average American family really needs assault weapons.  But that's a part of the philosophy.

Then there is war.  Today's Christian Right loves to support our troops, but they don't seem to care much about our veterans because so many of them are among the poor and needy.  The "right" has always hated draft dodgers, yet now Ted Nugent is okay, all American.  Why?  Because he hates President Obama.  When did that hate become okay?  

There's a lot of arguing going around about Chick Fil A and the owner's "traditional marriage values" and a lot of people came out to support those values in kind of a protest day.  What do we really consider traditional marriage anyway?  So many people, even within the church, are on their second or third marriages, and we seem to be okay with that.  So why are we so upset that people of the same sex want to marry?  I've heard the argument that they can't procreate so it's unnatural, but do all couples marry just to procreate?  What about older couples whose childbearing days are over?  What about people who are sterile and marry anyway, even though they know they are?  What about people who just don't want to have children?  During the feminist days of my youth, I once heard it said that the "Mother of the Year" award ought to go to a sterilized woman with adopted children.  We never hear about overpopulation anymore, yet we are living with a lot of problems caused by it.  At times I wonder if more people are gay as natures way of cutting back on procreation, and we do seem to have more fertility problems than ever before which also goes along with my thought process on this.  But I digress--in my opinion, if Chick Fil A really wanted to show a Christian act, wouldn't it really make a statement if all the proceeds from their protest/support day went to helping the needy?

There's so many contradictions with Christian attitudes today and I've only touched on a few; yet Christ's ways were so simple.  He cared so much about the "least of them" and said blessed are the peace makers.  He left us with three basic commandments, and if we worked on keeping those, we would come a lot closer to following him.  The commandments are "Love your Lord, your God with all your heart", "Love your neighbor as you love yourself", and "Love one another as I have loved you."  Shouldn't we start with those before we try to force our beliefs on others?  How are we emulating Christ's humility with such arrogance?  It is, or at least should be, all about a heart attitude.