The Seven Pointless Things That Christians Fight About

<p>Growing up as a Pastor&rsquo;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.</p> <p>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 &ldquo;no&rdquo; vote, distributing literature warning people about the horrifying moral slippery slope we would find ourselves on if we allowed certain people &mdash; most of whom won&rsquo;t have anything to do with the church &mdash; the freedom to marry the person who they actually love.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/backyard-theology/the-seven-pointless-things-that-christians-fight-about-dbd81f85f7e8"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>