He has compared the current state of things in the world (politics, religious turmoil) to "Everyone ('corporate' Christians, pagans, Jews, Muslims) all have a boiling pot of water in front of them and they are all throwing bricks into each other's pots, splashing the boiling water everywhere, burning each other. While legitimate Christians are running around with a hose trying to cool everything off." (I had a Startrek analogy of corporate/right-wing/evangelical as Veddic/Kai Winn, and legitimate Christians being Veddic Bareil, taken from Startrek DS9.) Legitimate Christians being ignored or associated with the ones throwing the bricks.
In short, the right-wing/evangelical/"corporate" church we see today is the result of the syncretism of the early church and is not the face of true faith. And in my personal opinion, is a false faith/church.
Now, some of you might be saying "Well, you're a Pagan, of course you think that way..." and if you are saying that, you're proving my point. You're proving John's point. You're proving the article's point.
I, like many other Pagans, and like John (and others like him), view it as, it doesn't matter what race, gender, orientation, faith... if you're a decent person, that's all that matters. Now ask yourself, when a Pagan is viewing things in a way that follows the bible more closely than your views do, what faith are you actually following (if any)?
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