Hi jerry lynch

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God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.   God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things...to nullify the things that are..."

I so relate to your feelings on this matter. To say Christian in this country is steadily becoming a synonym for hate and intolerance and Right Wing politics. It infers being a combatant against Science and reasonable thought. The automatic sneer that came from non-Christians was for these characteristics, not a "reckless" love. I searched for something new to call myself and meanwhile offered quick explanations that I was not one of "those Christians." My efforts were not effective. 

Then in the middle of your article something startling happened: I asked myself did Jesus suffer ridicule, torture and death for the right judgment of others? What others may think of Christians, and today rightly so, is not changed by abandoning Christ. That what many may think of me just by the label Christian