I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers.
Although I am a Christian, with what religion has become - a tool for so much of the bad stuff - I just say to people that I'm a person of faith.
Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God's word without subjectivity.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.