Warning: Religiously Political Content

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? -- Matthew 5:43-48

Let's bring that into today, shall we?

"You have heard people tell you, 'Love those who believe like you do, but hate those who don't or those who oppose you.' But I tell you to actively and wholeheartedly love and be kind to those who believe differently, behave differently, and even oppose you, so that you may be more like the God you claim you serve. Doesn't God send sun and rain down on everybody, both the person who believes like you and the one who does not? So, if you only treat fairly and lovingly those who love you back and act like or believe like you, what reward do you expect from that? Even the people you consider the lowest of the low do that. If you are kind and charitable only to your own group, what more are you doing than those you think are outside of God's plan? Don't even non-believers do that?

In other words, for today's American Evangelicals, it is precisely by your love, kindness, and acts of service to RINOs, Democrats, progressive non-fundamentalist Christians, liberals, migrants, Muslims, Roe V. Wade supporters, LGBTQIA+, BLMs, etc., that you will demonstrate how Christlike you are. 

And that means that every time you post mean-spirited memes calling the people you hate "evil" and "whore" and "slept her way to office" and "animals" and "polluting the lifeblood of America," you are moving further and further away from the very faith you still somehow believe you are defending. 

To be fair, the same goes for those progressive Christians who seemed to delight in belittling their opposition too. 

For those who don't claim a Christian-based belief system, your behavioral standards may vary. 😉