"The thing about Christians"

In The North Adams Transcript, there was an article written by John Seven about Christianity entitled "The Thing about Christians." Even though our class is covering more ground than just Christianity (Thank you Buddha), I can't seem to get the Christianity topic out of my head. Through my search into media and our conversations in Blogger, I  think that Christianity and its flaws(?) are up there for big conversation starters.

Hence, in my new blog post, Seven's article talks about his view on Catholicism. Check out the link to his Blog:

http://johnsevencollection.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/the-thing-about-christians/

Quotes from the article that I found interesting:

• "I, and many others, would love to see a movement of non-extremist Christians, as organized and prominent in the culture as any of the conservative evangelicals, who see the core values of their faith as something really worth fighting for. I keep hearing about all the liberal Christians, but I’ve not noticed any major actions from them."
•  If the love, tolerance and charity of Christ is in your heart, then you’d best do something about the political pirates who have hijacked your spirituality for the purposes of control, because they are the ones defining doctrine these days.
• One thing I can say is that I am not the one who put his religious beliefs at the center of political rhetoric, and so I reserve the right to treat that religion as a central issue in my political dialogue so long as other people insist on doing the same. Christians do not get to have it both ways — they can’t push their belief as motivation for laws and then whine that anyone who touches it is out of line.

And my personal favorite:
"For the sake of argument, let’s say that I am obsessed with Christianity. The real question is why that is, not whether I am."


Huh. Interesting point. So Seven is saying that he might not necessarily be a Catholic, but he is still intrigued with the religion. I think his statement can affect everyone who is reading my post at this very moment. I think that many people are obsessed with the topic of Christianity. Don't you?