I'm pretty into sports, and I'm sure you've seen everything going on with the NFL recently about some black players taking a knee during the anthem, protesting police treatment of minorities and people of color. I grew up Catholic and have many Christian (and republican leaning) friends. I was asked what I thought of the whole movement when it was at its peak, and my response was basically "I don't know what it's like to be black or what it's like to have to deal with any of the issues they are protesting over, but I think we should try to see where they are coming from before making a judgement." I am then usually met with some measure of disdain about how it's disgraceful and disrespectful to the flag and the military.
I guess the way I see it, is we are Christians before we are Americans, and we are Americans before we are republican/democrat. If we are who we say we are (Christians), I feel we should be showing compassion and understanding to those who claim to be mistreated. I'm truly surprised at how many Christians I know who wanted to see these athletes fired and publicly disgraced.
Really what I'm getting at here Reverend, is that I'm seeing a real disconnect between what we as Christians are being taught and what we are going out and proclaiming ourselves. It genuinely scares me that Christianity seems to be a tool used by "Christians" to spread their own agenda guised in holy riotousness.
With everything going on in the world right now, I just feel embarrassed to be a Christian lately. How do I overcome this?
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I'm pretty into sports, and I'm sure you've seen everything going on with the NFL recently about some black players taking a knee during the anthem, protesting police treatment of minorities and people of color. I grew up Catholic and have many Christian (and republican leaning) friends. I was asked what I thought of the whole movement when it was at its peak, and my response was basically "I don't know what it's like to be black or what it's like to have to deal with any of the issues they are protesting over, but I think we should try to see where they are coming from before making a judgement." I am then usually met with some measure of disdain about how it's disgraceful and disrespectful to the flag and the military.
I guess the way I see it, is we are Christians before we are Americans, and we are Americans before we are republican/democrat. If we are who we say we are (Christians), I feel we should be showing compassion and understanding to those who claim to be mistreated. I'm truly surprised at how many Christians I know who wanted to see these athletes fired and publicly disgraced.
Really what I'm getting at here Reverend, is that I'm seeing a real disconnect between what we as Christians are being taught and what we are going out and proclaiming ourselves. It genuinely scares me that Christianity seems to be a tool used by "Christians" to spread their own agenda guised in holy riotousness.
With everything going on in the world right now, I just feel embarrassed to be a Christian lately. How do I overcome this?
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