My evangelical cousin is at death's door.

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81. Most atheists I have met aren't militant about it and logic is something they respect.

I think there is a movement to push them that way, another way of dividing the country. Hopefully logic will prevail.

But the Christian Nationalist movement has pushed so many people away from church and it's sad.

The actual example of what Christ said and did is completely opposite their crusade of hatred.

The Inquisition was a violation of core principals Jesus preached as were the Crusades and the Doctrine of Discovery.

The Church has been taken over by people seeking to abuse it's power to persuade on many occasions, so the Separation of Church and State really protects both.

As a Christian, I simply want to live an ethical life based on the example Jesus set with his words and actions.

If anyone has questions, I'll answer, from my own experience and research, but I'm not trying to force anything on anyone. That isn't the way I want to be treated so why would I do that to anyone else? Especially in God's name. It's just backwards to everything I know about being a Christian.