German chants of "No God, no state, no patriarchy", "Masturbation instead of evangelization," and "Never again Jesus" filled the air together with speaker announcements that compared the gathered Christians to Nazis...Christival hosts also reported that some Christians were mobbed and had beer bottles thrown at them.
You never blame the victim, but one of the bigger problems with Christianity today is that we've allowed the modern day version of the Pharisee, modern fundamentalists, to become the face of Christianity. If, as Christians, we taught what Jesus taught, no one would have any basis whatsoever for considering us a collection of bigoted, narrow-minded people filled with hate. Just as Jesus fought against the Pharisees, so must we fight against the modern fundamentalist so that we might return our religion to its true origins.
“How terrible it will be for you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest part of your income, but you ignore the important things of the law- justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but you should not leave undone the most important things. Blind Guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat; then you swallow a camel.” Matthew 23:23-24
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