Change their names

I was totally disgusted to watch the scene on the news the other night whereby little children were trying to walk to school with their mothers in Northern Ireland. People were jeering and catcalling, throwing rocks, and finally someone set off a bomb. These poor little children were terrified. After the bomb went off, the TV camera captured these little children running through the streets with their mothers screaming and crying in pitiful terror. Get this, the people who set off the bomb and were throwing rocks etc. were Protestants and the children going to school were Catholics. The “Protestants” and the “Catholics” hate each
other with a dark vengeance! In this case the Catholics are the
victim, but they cannot play the victim too much as they are just as insane with acts of violence toward the Protestants. Both sides have a satanic hatred of each other and routinely clash.

I wish they would change their name to the KKK and the Hell’s Angels.
It would be entirely more appropriate than Protestants and Catholics.
This insanity is just another undeserved dark stain against those who believe in Christianity. I consider myself a Protestant, but I certainly do not believe in what these people believe. I’m sure that Catholics worldwide condemn this type of conduct with equal disgust.
This is one reason that so many people are turned off toward God.
Throughout time, people affiliated with one denomination or other within organized religion have done and continue to do things in the name of God. God of course has condemned such conduct and stands for just the opposite. Jesus’ greatest commandment aside from loving Him with all of our hearts and souls, is to love one another. Unfortunately too many unsaved people’s only impression of Christianity is when they see so-called “Christians” acting like they are straight out of Hell.

We should do our utmost to fairly represent God. Our lives should be a testimony for God, not a reason to reject Christianity. When I try to lead someone to Jesus, by far, the most common objection I hear is that they do not want to be around all of the hypocrites. It is something to seriously think about the next time we are tempted to share in a dirty joke, or swear, or otherwise somehow dishonor our Father.

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John 15:17
These things I command you,
that you love one another.

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