The Seven Pointless Things That Christians Fight About
When Christian Convictions Clash for No Good Reason
Growing up as a Pastor’s kid in the eighties gave me a front-row pew to the kind of vitriol and anger that can emerge from an otherwise lovely and mild-mannered Christian when you say or do something that challenges their strongly held beliefs.
When my country conducted a nationwide plebiscite on whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, the Senior Pastor of my old church went on a one-man campaign to lobby for the “no” vote, distributing literature warning people about the horrifying moral slippery slope we would find ourselves on if we allowed certain people — most of whom won’t have anything to do with the church — the freedom to marry the person who they actually love.
I remember the look of righteous indignation that the pastor gave me when I dared to suggest that the world would not end if same-sex couples got married, and — shock, horror — maybe God was not as offended by the idea as he was. I soon learned that it was pointless to try to argue with this man.
Christians have a habit of taking the moral high ground, staking claim to some ideological position on a particular issue — even if that issue, when you boil it down, doesn’t even matter all that much in the grand…
