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Do Liberals Really Hate Christians?

  In a TownHall article titled "Why Liberals Hate Christians" , Kevin McCullough writes, "Liberals in America despise Christians of true faith."

How does McCullough explain the existence of Christians who are liberals?  Does he deny that they are true Christians, or does he believe that they hate themselves?

McCullough's statement is based on what he saw and heard when he watched Alexandra Pelosi's documentary "Friends of God" , which aired on HBO.

In regards to the documentary, Mc Cullough writes, "Pelosi's work is largely un-narrated. Yet even in the selection of the cuts used Pelosi's point is clear: cause Christians to appear as goofy, somewhat odd, and backwards as possible."

I hate to be the one to break the news, but there are Christians who are goofy, somewhat odd and backward.

Yes, it is goofy for a man to attempt to place five giant crosses in every state of the union.
 
Yes, it is somewhat odd for a truck stop to have chapel services.

As for being backward, a  recent TownHall story titled Evolution Memo Prompts Call for Apology refers to a man named Marshall Hall.  He is someone who believes that the Sun revolves around the Earth.  Having read some of Hall's rantings, my guess is that he would consider himself a Christian.
 
In all fairness to Mr. McCullough, his assessment of  Alexandra Pelosi's motive could be correct, that she is trying to present to the public a negative depiction of Christians.

Even if that assessment is correct, do all liberals hate Christians?

I think not.

Would it be correct to say that there are anti-Christian liberals who hate Christians?  Yes, it would be correct to say that, as bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan have demontrated.

Still, the title "Why Liberals Hate Christians" is misleading, because McCullough doesn't cite any evidence of liberals hating Christians.  Instead, he projects hatred into a film maker whom he admits to pre-judging: "In that Alexandra is the daughter of the nation's first feminist, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi it was all too easy to pre-judge where Alexandra's work would land."

McCullough ends his article by proclaiming that liberals are going to Hell: ". . . it is the reality in seeing the joy, peace, and contentment that we have and that they do not - that drives liberals to draw angry conclusions. Conclusions that will send them to a Godless eternity... "

Again, what about the liberals who are Christians?  I don't think that U.S. Senator Barack Obama (a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ) considers himself a person going into a godless eternity.

It would be wise not to paint liberals with such broad strokes.

P.S.: In case you are wondering, I am not a liberal Christian.  Instead, I am a member of the Christian Middle.
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