Christianity is not a ‘nice’ religion

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Listening to the sermons of many pastors, one walks away with the sense that one has heard a generic lecture, one that could just as easily have been given by a secular speaker, on the importance of being a “good” person.  Christians should of course be nice whenever possible, but Christianity is not about becoming a nice person.  Definitely not.  Many churchgoers disagree with that. 

In a retirement village I frequented, there were retired Catholic priests and nuns.  I overheard an elderly nun, conversing with a priest, and she was respectfully reading him the riot act.  She told him, not in these exact words, I’ve known you a long time, and I’ve never heard you say anything about God, Jesus, or the Bible.  Do you even believe in those things?  To my mind, she was the real Christian. 

I used to watch a popular TV series that I thought was subtly promoting Christian values.  I was eventually disappointed and stopped watching.  In one scene, a married couple goes to the Protestant pastor for spiritual advice.  In this and other instances, he never once mentioned sin, the atoning sacrifice of our Savior, or the Resurrection.  Time after time, the writers missed opportunities to insert the Christian message, however subliminally, into the script.  In the last episode I ever watched, they were casually promoting the redefinition of marriage.  I have since discontinued all cable TV services.